NEW HOPE, PA. – The New Hope-Lambertville (Route 202) Toll Bridge’s newly installed open-road all-electronic tolling (AET) gantry is now in service.
The first transaction at the recently completed highway-speed tolling facility was recorded 11:01 a.m. today – Wednesday, June 24. Tolls are collected in the Pennsylvania-bound (Route 202 southbound) direction only.
The opening marks the first time a former Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission cash-collection tolling point has been converted to open-road service. For the past two years, the location has had cashless tolling using former toll plaza infrastructure. Cash collections ended at the location on June 17, 2024, leaving motorists with two electronic payment options: E-ZPass and TOLL BY PLATE license-plate billing.
The modernization effort at the New Hope-Lambertville Toll Bridge is the marquee element 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.
