Work is underway to convert the New Hope-Lambertville (Route 202) Toll Bridge to an all-electronic tolling system.
Crews began this week by reducing traffic to a single lane in each direction to allow for the removal of the former cash toll-collection plaza, the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission announced.
The project will replace the plaza with an overhead toll gantry equipped with E-ZPass readers and cameras to record license plates of non-E-ZPass customers.
The commission said the project also includes repairs to the bridge’s cracked and rotating Pennsylvania abutment backwall.
Due to the construction, wide loads are prohibited in the southbound direction during the gantry installation.
The single-lane restrictions are expected to remain in place into 2026.
The project, including roadway realignment and landscaping, is expected to be completed by late winter or early spring of 2027.
The new open-road tolling gantry will be located near the former toll plaza on the bridge’s Pennsylvania side. It will be the first time a former cash-collection toll plaza operated by the commission is replaced with a highway-speed all-electronic tolling (AET) facility.
The project in Solebury Township will serve as a prototype for converting six other commission-owned bridges where cash tolls were previously collected.
The commission stopped accepting cash payments at the New Hope-Lambertville location a year ago.
In April, the commission approved an $11.86 million contract with PFK-Mark III, Inc. of Newtown, for the project.
The New Hope-Lambertville (Route 202) Toll Bridge, which opened in 1971, connects Solebury Township in Bucks County and Delaware Township in Hunterdon County.
Tolls were converted to a one-way collection in the southbound, Pennsylvania-bound direction on Dec. 1, 2002.
In 2024, the bridge carried an average of 13,800 vehicles per day.
The bridge has the commission’s highest E-ZPass usage, with 92.65 percent of toll transactions paid with E-ZPass in 2024.
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