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Tolls, PATCO Fees for Trips Over Delaware River to Increase Friday
Pennsylvania-bound bridge tolls will increase from $4 to $5. PATCO fees will be up 10 percent.
Many trips between the Marple Newtown area and South Jersey will become more expensive starting this weekend, as the Delaware River Port Authority increases bridge tolls and PATCO (Port Authority Transit Corporation) fees to fund infrastructure improvements, the authority announced on its website.
Drivers will still pay nothing on their way to the Garden State, but coming home on the Commodore Barry, Walt Whitman, Ben Franklin and Betsy Ross bridges, the cost will be $5, up from $4.
Trips on PATCO will cost 10 percent more. PATCO's trains run between Philadelphia (terminal at 16th and Locust streets) and Lindenwold, NJ. An end-to-end trip will now cost $3.
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A Broomall or Newtown Square resident could get from home to the shore via SEPTA and NJ Transit, with or without a PATCO trip in the middle.
The fee increases are meant to help fund repairs to all four bridges and PATCO, as well as all 120 PATCO cars.
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