From The Wilton Bulletin
FORT LEE, N.J. (AP) — Attention drivers at the George Washington Bridge: Your cash is no good here.
Starting Sunday, drivers looking to cross the Hudson River from New Jersey into New York will go through an electronic tolling system.
Drivers without E-ZPass who would otherwise be paying cash will instead have their license plates photographed by overhead cameras and bills sent to them by mail.
The move from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey comes as a way to help ease congestion at the bridge, the busiest of the three Hudson River crossings that the agency oversees.
With the instituting of the new system, the toll booths currently in place will be taken out, removing a link to a memorable chapter in New Jersey’s political history known as “Bridgegate.”
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“Many advocates have been calling for this for a long time and it’s a welcome move,” said Tom Wright, president of the Regional Plan Association.
In 2013, traffic in Fort Lee, New Jersey, was snarled for several days when a group of Republican political operatives had some of the access lanes leading into the toll booths blocked in retaliation for a Democratic mayor not endorsing then-Gov. Chris Christie for reelection.
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