Bridge Commission Schedules Final Hearing On Proposed Toll Hike

NEW HOPE, PA — The Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission will hold its final hearing on Thursday night on a proposed toll hike scheduled to take effect in early 2026.

Registration is still being taken for the hearing, which is scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 9, through the Zoom public meeting online platform and its corresponding teleconferencing function.

Individuals seeking to comment online at a virtual toll hearing should go to www.drjtbc.org/tollcomments, scroll down to the hearing registration section and click on the registration from link for the hearing at which they want to submit comment. After filling out the form, they must click the form’s submit button. The Zoom hearing link is sent to individuals who register properly.

Information also is posted at www.drjtbc.org/tollcomments for individuals who would prefer to comment through the hearing’s teleconferencing connection.

Hearing registrants must provide their first and last names and their municipality and state of residence. Individuals who plan to speak online through Zoom also must provide their email address. Individuals planning to speak via teleconferencing also need to provide the last four digits of the phone line they will use to comment at the hearings. Registration is first-come, first-served until all available slots at each respective hearing are filled.

Individuals will be restricted to speaking up to three minutes at one hearing only. Hearing comments must be declarative; the hearings will not be question and answer sessions. Comments will be restricted to the proposed toll adjustments posted at https://www.drjtbc.org/proposednewtolls. Anonymous comments are not accepted.

Under the proposed toll adjustment, the $1.50 E-ZPass toll for Class 1 passenger vehicles (two axles and less than 8 feet high) would rise 50 cents to a $2 rate. The corresponding $3 Toll by Plate toll would rise by $2 to a $5 rate. Meanwhile, the E-ZPass rate for larger vehicles would rise by $2 -- from the current $4.50 per-axle charge to a new $6:50 per-axle rate. The corresponding Toll By Plat rate would rise by $3 from the current $5 per axle charge to a new $8 per-axle rate.

DRJTBC Executive Director Joe Resta’s toll hearing presentation has been posted on the website and may be watched by clicking here or you can watch it below.

Other Comment Submission Methods

Under commission policy, additional comment methods remain available for the public:

• Online: Click on the button for the toll-comment form that has been posted at https://www.drjtbc.org/propose... and www.drjtbc.org/tollcomments.
• US Mail: address to Director of Community Affairs Jodee Inscho, DRJTBC Administration Building, 1199 Woodside Road, Yardley, PA. 19067 (Must be postmarked by Oct. 17 to be part of the official record.)
• E-mail – messages can be sent to tollcomments@drjtbc.org.

To be included in the official record, individuals must provide their first and last names, municipality of residence, and state of residence. E-mail addresses and phone numbers are requested for confirmation purposes, but will not be included in the official record that gets presented to Commissioners and later released to the public. Anonymous submissions will not be included in the official record and will be discarded.

The public comment period on the proposed toll adjustments is scheduled to close 4 p.m. EDT Oct. 17.