Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission<\/a>, on Thursday, announced that all eight of the commission’s toll bridges would see rate hikes after the organization approved a new toll rate structure for 2026.<\/p>\nNo firm start date has yet been announced. Instead, the commission said, in a statement on the toll rate hikes, that a specific date would be a announced in December, but the new tolls are expected to take effect on or about Jan. 1, 2026. <\/p>\n
The eight toll bridges impacted by the rate hike are:<\/p>\n
Trenton-Morrisville (Route 1)<\/p>\n
Scudder Falls (I-295)<\/p>\n
New Hope-Lambertville (Route 202)<\/p>\n
I-78<\/p>\n
Easton-Phillipsburg (Route 22)<\/p>\n
Portland-Columbia (Routes 611, 46, and 94)<\/p>\n
Delaware Water Gap (I-80)<\/p>\n
Milford-Montague (Route 206).<\/p>\n
For passenger vehicles that have E-ZPass, rates will go up by 50 cents — from $1.50 to $2 — but, for those without the payment system, toll-by-plate tolls for passenger vehicles will jump from $2 to $5. <\/p>\n
For toll-per-axle vehicles, which are above eight feet in height, tolls would increase by $2 per axle. So, rates would climb from $4.50 per axle to $6.50 per axle for drivers with E-ZPass. <\/p>\n
Without E-ZPass these types of vehicles would be hit with a $3 rate hike to $8-per-axle from a previous rate of $5-per-axle. <\/p>\n
The commission said that the toll hikes were necessary to “finance transportation-infrastructure projects and improvements, offset rising construction-industry costs, and maintain favorable borrowing rates in the municipal bond market.”<\/p>\n
In a statement, Executive Director of the commission, Joseph J. Resta, said that the toll changes were considered “in the wake of financial-metric-projections that show the Commission risks falling short in key areas \u2013 General Fund Reserve Balance and Debt Service Coverage Ratio \u2013 in future years.” <\/p>\n
The commission noted, in a statement that bond-rating firms regularly use these indices to determine the stability and credit worthiness of public agencies.<\/p>\n
Also, according to a statement from the commission, these rate hikes were initially proposed in July and a public commenting period had allowed motorists and residents to provide input into the proposal earlier this year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drivers who travel between Pennsylvania and New Jersey should be alert that, come next year, eight toll bridges…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12475,69,71,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-46003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-delaware-river","9":"tag-philadelphia","10":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","11":"tag-philadelphia-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}