So you have your spiffy new EZ Pass from NJ and you fly through the toll for any of these bridges or tunnels, only to get your EZ Pass statement and see that you’ve been charged the Cash toll rate.
- Bronx – Whitestone Bridge
- Brooklyn Battery Tunnel
- Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge
- Henry Hudson Bridge (No trucks permitted)
- Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges
- Memorial Bridge
- Queens Midtown Tunnel
- Triboro RFK Bridge
- Throgs Neck Bridge
- Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
What happened?
Because you bought your EZ Pass tag from a New Jersey Customer Service Center, you are paying the Cash toll rate instead of the EZ Pass rate.
Yes, this is true.
The MTA, which manages the Bronx Whitestone, Throgs Neck and Triboro RFK bridges, Brooklyn-Battery and Queens-Midtown tunnels, anticipates an additional $33 million from this change in 2011.
The proposed $4 toll increases for E-ZPass on NYC’s Hudson River crossings didn’t pass, but a smaller increase did. For the George Washington Bridge, the Holland Tunnel, Lincoln Tunnel, and three Staten Island bridges: The Goethals, Bayonne and the Outerbridge Crossing, you’ll now be paying $1.50 more as of September 18, 2011:
Let’s say someone steals, or you lose, your EZ Pass. Are you liable for any charges put on it?
As of August 5, 2011, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) is considering some pretty significant toll increases to use the Lincoln Tunnel, Holland Tunnel, George Washington Bridge, Goethals Bridge, Outerbridge Crossing, Bayonne Bridge, and PATH trains. These increases would be the first since 2008.
