All traffic in both directions will be stopped for up to 30 minutes at some interval between midnight and 5 a.m. TONIGHT — Dec. 2-3 — at the Hope-Lambertville (Route 202) Toll Bridge.
Motorists who use the bridge during overnight hours are urged to plan ahead and consider an alternate route during the wee morning hours Wednesday.
Passenger vehicles can cross the New Hope-Lambertville Toll-Supported Bridge (4-ton load posting, one mile downriver) or the Centre Bridge-Stockton Toll-Supported Bridge (5-ton load posting, 2.3 miles upriver). Larger and heavier vehicles would need to use the I-78 Toll Bridge (approximately 31 miles upstream) or the Scudder Falls (I-295) Toll Bridge (10.4 miles downstream).
Motorists who choose to use the Route 202 toll bridge early Wednesday are otherwise urged to exercise caution and be prepared to stop. Travel delays are possible at any point between midnight and 5 a.m. (Note – Traffic volumes are extremely light at this bridge during overnight hours.)
The anticipated extended traffic stoppage will allow a Commission contractor’s crane crew to hoist a 30,000-pound, 110-foot-long steel monotube atop two recently erected pre-cast-concrete towers along the bridge’s Pennsylvania approach.
The monotube will later be outfitted with high-resolution cameras and E-ZPass toll-reading devices. When completed, the facility will allow for open-road highway-speed cashless toll collections through E-ZPass and TOLL BY PLATE license-plate billing. The Commission stopped collecting cash tolls at the bridge in June 2024.
The overnight work is part of a project that is converting the bridge’s former southbound cash-collection toll plaza to highway-speed open-road tolling involving E-ZPass and TOLL BY PLATE billing. The project also involves repairs and improvements to the bridge’s Pennsylvania abutment.
The bridge has already been reduced to single travel lanes in each direction, each with narrowed width and posted 25 MPH speed limits.
NOTE: The upcoming overnight travel restriction is subject to change due to weather, emergencies, or other factors. This travel restriction was originally scheduled for the night of Dec. 1-2 but was postponed due to unfavorable weather conditions.
