It will cost you more to use these N.J. toll roads, bridges in 2025

As the calendar flips to a new year, it will cost more to use the state’s three major toll roads, crossings between New Jersey and New York City, and the PATH rail system.

Here are the increases:

New Jersey Turnpike Authority

The authority, which also runs the Garden State Parkway, will have a 3% toll increase starting Jan. 1. It is the fourth toll increase since 2020, when the authority changed its policy to give itself the ability to automatically increase tolls by 3% annually through a process called indexing.

Turnpike officials said the average commuter will see tolls increase by 16 cents. If they travel to and from work on the Turnpike for 250 days in 2025, the toll increase will cost an additional $80, said Tom Feeney, an authority spokesperson.

The Turnpike tolls increases include:

A trip on the full 117 mile length of the Turnpike between the Delaware Memorial Bridge and George Washington Bridge will increase from $20.70 to $21.35 for cash customers and from $20.62 to $21.24 for E-ZPass customers traveling in peak hours. Off-peak goes from $15.45 to $15.93 for all NJ E-ZPass customers.

Garden State Parkway tolls will increase for one way toll plazas on the Parkway’s main line from $2.20 to $2.30 for cash customers and from $2.09 to $2.17 for E-ZPass customers. The rate applies to the Cape May, Great Egg, New Gretna, Barnegat, Asbury Park, Raritan, Union, Essex, Bergen and Passaic toll plazas.

Exit and entry ramps at Paramus, Clifton, Passaic, Bloomfield, Irvington, Matawan, Keyport, Holmdel, Red Bank, Belmar/Wall, Brick, Lakewood, Berkeley, Forked River, and Wildwood will see cash tolls increase from 80 cents to 85 cents. E-ZPass tolls increase from 73 cents to 76 cents.

Tolls at Saddle Brook, Union Ramp, Sayreville, Eatontown and Somers Point increase from $2.20 to $2.30 for cash and from $2.09 to $2.17 for E-ZPass.

Tolls at the Watchung and Waretown exits go from $1.10 to $1.15 for cash and $1.05 to $1.09 for E-ZPass. East Orange tolls rise from $1.10 to $1.15 for cash and $1.05 to $1.09 for E-ZPass customers.

Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

The bi-state agency will increases tolls on its Hudson River and Staten Island-New Jersey crossings by 68 cents starting Jan. 5. Technically the agency is instituting two toll increases, a 43 cent increase based on an increase in the consumer price index plus an additional 25 cent increase for a total of 68 cents.

Tolls on the authority’s six bridges and tunnels last increased on Jan. 7, 2024, after a $1 toll hike in January 2023, which was the first toll hike since 2019.

The authority also has two other toll increases on tap starting July 1 which are designed get more drivers to pay through an E-ZPass account.

One increase will hike the toll rate to $22.38 for “pay by plate” drivers who are billed for their toll after their license plates are read. The other ups drivers who have E-Zpass, but their transponder can’t be read due to its location or placement, to a toll rate of $18.72.

Riders who use PATH, the authority’s bi-state transit system, will see a 25 cent fare increase from $2.75 to $3 on Jan. 12, which is the first fare hike in 10 years, agency officials said.

Atlantic City Expressway

The toll road to New Jersey’s most famous oceanside resort will have two 2025 milestones. The first is rolling out the first all-electronic cashless toll collection system on a state toll road in May. The second is a 3% toll increase that takes effect Jan. 1. This is the fourth toll increase on the expressway since September 2020.

Based on the current toll rates, a 3% increase on the expressway would increase cash tolls at the two major toll plazas at Egg Harbor, and Exit 17 to Route 50, from $4.70 to $4.75. EZ-Pass tolls increase from $3.01 to $3.10 at those locations.

Tolls at other exits that are now $1.40 for cash and 95 cents for E-ZPass will increase 3% to $1.45 for cash and 98 cents for E-ZPass. Exit tolls that are now 75 cents for cash and E-ZPass will increase to 77 cents.