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Tolls are going up on 8 Delaware River bridges Listen to the proposals before it happens
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Toll hikes proposed for bridges crossing Delaware River between NJ and Pennsylvania
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The Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission has proposed increasing tolls on eight of its crossings between New Jersey and Pennsylvania this year and again in 2024.
The bi-state agency said in a press release the proposed hikes would help offset continuing COVID-19-induced toll revenue declines, ensure payment of financial obligations and provide funding for planned capital projects. In addition to these bridges, the agency operates 12 other free crossings, two of which are pedestrian bridges.
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Drivers who cross any of the eight Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission’s spans between New Jersey and Pennsylvania face two proposed toll increases this year and in 2024, authorities said.
The need to hike state bridge tolls is being blamed on lost revenue during the coronavirus pandemic.
The proposed increase, announced Monday, would be implemented on April 3, if approved by the board of commissioners at a March 29 meeting. The proposed hike comes just a month after the bridge commission approved a 2021 budget that state officials boasted had no toll hike.
The 2021 proposed increase would affect the seven Commission toll bridges that accept E-Z Pass and cash toll payments The Trenton-Morrisville (Route 1), New Hope-Lambertville (Route 202), I-78, Easton-Phillipsburg (Route 22), Portland-Columbia (Routes 611, 46, and 94), Delaware Water Gap (I-80), and Milford-Montague (Route 206) bridges, officials said.
The pandemic has taken its toll on funding for Delaware River bridges, officials say, and drivers who use the spans operated by the Delaware River Toll Bridge Commission will now need to pay more to cross.
The commission operates eight toll bridges and 12 toll-support bridges over the Delaware from the Philadelphia-Bucks County line north to the New Jersey-New York border.
Here the spans include the Trenton-Morrisville (Route 1 toll), the Lower Trenton, the Calhoun Street, Scudder Falls toll, Washington Crossing, New Hope-Lambertville, Route 202 toll, Centre- Stockton, Lumberville-Raven Rock, Uhlerstown-Frenchtown, Upper Black Eddy-Milford and Riegelsville bridges.
It announced Monday that due to declines in toll revenue as more people work from home rather than commute across the river, it will have to raise its rates for the first system-wide toll adjustment in 10 years.
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