For whom the hike tolls: Drivers will have to pay 50 cents more to cross bridges and tunnels
Thank a driver today, straphangers.
More than 800,000 daily drivers have to dig deeper into their pockets and pay higher tolls to subsidize the bus, subway and commuter train system.
Tolls for most of the MTA’s major bridges and tunnels have been hiked 50 cents to $5.50 for those paying cash.
The E-ZPass toll is now $4.57, up from $4.15 for the major crossings: The Robert F. Kennedy Bridge, Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, Throgs Neck Bridge, Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and the Queens Midtown Tunnel.
One-way tolls to use the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge are now $11 cash, up from $10. E-ZPass will set drivers back $9.14, up from $8.30.
“It’s outrageous,” said John Corlett, director of government affairs for Automobile Club of New York.
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