The MTA has hiked fares and tolls every two years since 2010. Many trips per month they take across the bridge.Īt the same time, the MTA has created a middle-tier for tollĬollection: E-ZPass users whose devices are not affixed properly will beĬharged a “special rate” in between the regular and E-ZPass rates. Rebate - which will now apply to all borough residents regardless of how Those two bridges, as well as the Verrazzano Bridge’s Staten Island MTA officials opted to retain a discount for Queens residents for The Cross BayĪnd Marine Parkway bridges in Queens, meanwhile, will see tolls spikedįrom $2.29 for E-ZPass and $4.75 for everyone else to $2.45 and $5.09, On Upper Manhattan’s Henry Hudson Bridge, tolls will increase by 20Ĭents for E-ZPass users and 50 cents for everyone else. ![]() Without E-ZPass will be charged $10.17, up from $9.50 today. Tolls will increase from $6.12 to $6.55 for E-ZPass users on sixĬrossings: the Bronx-Whitestone, Triboro, Throgs Necks and Verrazzanoīridges and the Brooklyn-Battery and Queens-Midtown tunnels. However, with current electronic toll collection technology, like E-ZPass, the rule is no longer necessary.Tolls on the MTA’s seven bridges and two tunnels are set to go upĪpril 1, with the agency’s board unanimously approving an increase onĬurrent toll rates will increase an average of 7.08 percent, the MTA said. Prior to the change, the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge was the nation’s only bridge where tolling was controlled by 1986 federal legislation aimed at smoothing out stop-and-go traffic at toll booths. Carey and Queens-Midtown Tunnels and Bronx-Whitestone, Robert F. Under the new plan, the one-way and round-trip toll rates on the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge will match those at the Hugh L. Transit planners also hope that the change will alleviate traffic congestion by reducing the number of drivers who cut through Staten Island to get to Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island. The MTA estimates that pre-pandemic, 7,000 motorists per weekday were taking advantage of the free eastbound route. ![]() Split tolling is expected to net the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) an estimated $10 million in additional annual revenue by eliminating instances in which motorists would only use the span in the uncharged direction. ![]() Additional fees are charged for each axle above seven. Tolls for commercial motor vehicles crossing from Brooklyn to Staten Island are based on the number of axles, and currently range from $22.12 for two-axle vehicle drivers using the E-ZPass system to $147.52 for seven-axle vehicle drivers paying by mail. At the present time, drivers of passenger vehicles pay a mail-in toll of $19 to get from Brooklyn to Staten Island, $12.24 with the E-ZPass system or $5.50 if they are Staten Island residents, but nothing to cross into Brooklyn. The new tolling system will split the bridge’s current one-way toll in half and begin charging it in both directions. Located at the mouth of upper New York Bay, the bridge not only connects Brooklyn with Staten Island, but it’s also a major link in the interstate highway system, providing the shortest route between the middle Atlantic states and Long Island. 1, ending more than 30 years of federally-mandated one-way tolls on the span. Split tolling on the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge will officially go into effect at 2 a.m.
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