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The agency also started investing in electric-diesel hybrid buses. In 2010, BARTA became a county authority, overseen by the County of Berks, reflecting its focus on regionalism instead of centralism on the city of Reading. The former Reading Railroad Franklin Street Station was refurbished and reopened to bus service on September 9, 2013. [4]
Reading (/ ˈ r ɛ d ɪ ŋ / RED-ing; Pennsylvania German: Reddin) is a city in and the county seat of Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States.The city had a population of 95,112 at the 2020 census and is the fourth-most populous city in Pennsylvania after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Allentown.
From Bear Gap, the road ran west (currently Reading Turnpike Road) and crossed Shamokin Creek just east of Paxinos. About one-half mile west of Bear Gap is the point where the Danville Turnpike (the current PA-54 continuing northward), incorporated in 1815, joined the Centre Turnpike.
The Office of Management and Budget [17] has designated Berks County as the Reading, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). As of the 2010 U.S. census [ 18 ] the metropolitan area is the 10th-most populous in Pennsylvania and the 128th-most populous in the U.S. with a population of 413,491.
Pennsylvania Route 183 Truck (PA 183 Truck) is a 1.6-mile-long (2.6 km) truck route of PA 183 that bypasses a low-clearance bridge under the Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad in Cressona. The truck route follows Wilder Street north and curves to the northwest out of Cressona into North Manheim Township.
PA 724 westbound past its eastern terminus at PA 23 in East Pikeland Township. When routes were first legislated in Pennsylvania in 1911, what is now PA 724 was designated as part of Legislative Route 147 between east of Reading and North Coventry Township and as part of Legislative Route 201 between North Coventry Township and Phoenixville. [5]
A PennDOT-issued sign at an auto garage in New Castle stating that it conducts vehicle inspections for cars registered in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation was created from the former Department of Highways by Act 120, approved by the legislature on May 6, 1970. [3]
PA 562 westbound in Amity Township. When routes were legislated in Pennsylvania in 1911, present-day PA 562 was not legislated as part of a route. [4] By 1926, the roadway between Yellow House and Boyertown was paved. [5] In 1927, PA 62 (later PA 100) was designated to follow Reading Avenue through Boyertown north of Farmington Avenue.