STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New year, more tolls.
Tolls on the New York State Thruway are set to increase on Jan. 1 by 5%, months after the New York State Thruway Authority Board of Directors voted in September to approve a toll adjustment proposal.
The adjustment is the first to occur for systemwide New York E-ZPass customers since 2010, according to the state. A second 5% E-ZPass rate adjustment will happen again in 2027.
New York E-ZPass holders will see an increase from the current 4.5 cents per mile, to 4.7 cents per mile in 2024. The toll will reach 4.9 cents per mile in 2027. Non-New York E-ZPass customers and Tolls By Mail customers — which currently pay 5.1 and 5.8 cents per mile, respectively — will both begin paying 8.6 cents per mile by 2027.
Additionally, there will be 50-cent annual increases to the base New York E-ZPass toll rates on the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge through 2027. The Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge commuter discount plan — a 40% discount — will continue, while the Westchester and Rockland resident discount plan for the span will increase from a 17% discount to a 20% discount. The current toll is $5.75.
As previously reported by the Advance/SILlive.com, the increases were determined via an inflation-based schedule that was mandated by the Port Authority Board in 2008. This schedule triggers automatic increases whenever the cumulative impact of inflation on existing toll rates reaches $1 as measured from the last increase.
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The 2024 increase on the thruway follows the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s toll increase on the agency’s six interstate crossings, including the Goethals Bridge, Bayonne Bridge and Outerbridge Crossing, earlier this year. The cash-by-mail toll has increased from $16 to $17 in January, with the E-ZPass peak hours toll increasing from $13.75 to $14.75 and the E-ZPass non-peak hours toll increasing from $11.75 to $12.75.
Drivers headed into Manhattan also now have to…
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