Reading, PA Driving Tips
Take a breath of fresh air and enjoy the time spent at a variety of restaurants that will make your taste buds happy. Enjoy seeing the fine arts available on several streets there along with great sporting venues that will give you great excitement.
Reading, PA Buying Tips
Piazza Honda is a great location that provides great service and people who know their job very technically and practically speaking. Test drive along the strip at nearby Shillington a variety of cars at the various car locations.
Favorite Driving Memory
I like that usually the city is not crowded when I'm driving on its roads. My past experiences with working outside big cities called for days and days of long delays just to get to work. I can drive to or through the city with only 5-10 minute delays at most. I can access great stores like Target,
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Walmart, the Berkshire Mall, Chuckie Cheese and the Works gaming places for kids and more just a few miles away! My favorite driving highlight is when I go there at Christmas time and see all the houses that are decorated with lights. The children love to see images of Santa and his elves along with decorations for the season.
Favorite Road
Penn Ave.
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There are a lot of great businesses to shop at, the newspaper to visit, the library is just a few blocks away, and there is access to great restaurants as well. There are always great programs available at the library for young and old to enjoy.
Reading, PA Driving Tips
When in downtown Reading, pay close attention to the One-Way streets--there are a LOT of them! Also, most of the downtown parking is metered (there are some lots that charge per hour or per day).
Reading, PA Buying Tips
There are many reputable auto dealers in this area who sell and lease both new and pre-owned vehicles. Many folks, including me, value a word-of-mouth referral much more than an Internet rating.
Favorite Driving Memory
The first time I drove myself, in my first new car (a Dodge Daytona), up and around Skyline Drive/Duryea Drive, to the Pagoda, which looks out over the city. It was mid-Autumn; the mountains appeared to be carpeted in lush shades of gold, crimson, pumpkin orange, and burnt sienna. I went in late aft
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ernoon; as the sun began to set in the far horizon, the lights of the city's streets began to come on, and in the twilight, the city looked like a million twinkling diamonds.
Favorite Road
Skyline Drive/Duryea Drive
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The mountains are really beautiful at every time of year, but especially so in the Autumn. Very few American cities have their own Pagoda, the edges of which are lined with LED lights--you can see it at night from almost any vantage point in the city. Also, the road is used as the course for several
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automobile and bicycles "climbs" and races--most held in honor of Charles Duryea, the co-inventor of the first-ever working American gasoline-powered car.
Reading, PA Driving Tips
Learn your manual transmission! You can take the curves of the roads so much better. Also definitely have a GPS system with you. On the back country roads of Lancaster county, its easy to get a little lost and not everything is labeled the best.
Reading, PA Buying Tips
Manheim pike is the best place to find the car you need. It's a stretch of a few miles of car dealerships on either side. Almost all of them have independent financing for whatever your credit situation.
Favorite Driving Memory
I had just gotten my new GPS system. My car was fairly new, too, so I was still excited at any opportunity to drive it. I picked up one of my girlfriends and the guy I was dating at the time, and we started driving out of the city onto the back country roads. They took turns telling me which ways to
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turn and which roads to take. We drove for about an hour, pumping music through the speakers and talking. We took turns picking songs. Finally when we had absolutely zero idea where the heck we were, we turned on the GPS to get home.
Favorite Road
River road
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River road is beautiful. It's winding but not dangerous, and every house is gorgeous. There are ponds and fields with horses and cows and farm animals, and fences and stone walls and beautiful old structures. It also follows the river, which is gorgeous in itself.
