NEW HOPE, PA. – The Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission today announced that rain forecasts have forced a delay in the start-up of the New Hope-Lambertville (Route 202) Toll Bridge’s newly installed open-road cashless all-electronic tolling (AET) facility.
The recently completed highway-speed tolling facility is rescheduled to go into service sometime on Wednesday, June 24. Tolls are collected in the Pennsylvania-bound (Route 202 southbound) direction only.
A series of traffic shifts will be implemented to bring the new overhead system of cameras, LED vehicle illuminators, and E-ZPass tag readers online. Motorists using the bridge in either direction are urged to reduce speeds and exercise caution as new travel patterns go into effect.
The toll gantry erection marks the first time the Commission is fully converting one of its former cash-collection tolling points to an open-road AET facility. The work is one facet of a roughly 22-month-long project that also includes demolition of the bridge’s former cash-collection toll plaza, repairs and improvements to the bridge’s Pennsylvania abutment, and realignment and reconstruction of the Route 202 road surface on the Pennsylvania side of the bridge.
To carry out the project, the bridge has been reduced to single travel lanes in each direction since last summer. All construction is expected to end during the first half of 2027. By that time, the bridge and its approaches will return to two lanes in each direction. Any remaining project-related speed and size restrictions would then expire.
Located roughly one mile north of the commercial centers in Lambertville, N.J. and New Hope, PA., the New Hope-Lambertville Toll Bridge carries Route 202 between Delaware Township, N.J. and Solebury, PA. Slightly more than 10,000 vehicles per day cross the bridge, which holds the distinction of having the highest E-ZPass penetration rate (nearly 94 percent of transactions) among the Commission’s eight toll bridges. The four-lane highway bridge (currently reduced to single lanes in each direction) will turn 55 years old on July 22.
