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Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission
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3 Hospitalized In Serious 4-Car Crash At PA Toll Plaza, State Police Say (
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Three people were hospitalized following a serious four-car crash at a Pennsylvania toll plaza on Route 78, state police said. Officers at the Belfast station responded to the crash at lane two of the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission on Route 78 westbound near milepost 76.0 in Williams Township (Northampton County) just before 8:40 a.m. on Sunday, June 26. A speeding 51-year-old Blakeslee, PA driver went airborne after hitting another car that was stopped paying a toll with two other vehicles behind him, police said. The driver then rotated clockwise about 180 degrees before lan…
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PA Man Charged With Murder, Kidnapping In Brutal NJ Attack: Prosecutor
A Pennsylvania man has officially been charged with murder following the late November attack at a New Jersey home that left an 84-year-old woman dead and her son critically injured. Kyle Kaspereen, 24, is accused of carrying out the Nov. 30 attack at 122 Wayne Street in Washington Borough, causing the death of Elaine Trachin and severely injuring her 53-year-old son, Bart, who was found taped to his wheelchair with a garbage over his head, Warren County Prosecutor James L. Pfeiffer said. Kaspereen was first identified as a person of interest when investigators found that he had formerly li…
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Tolls Rise On These 7 Delaware River Bridges, Twice, Thanks To
Covid-
19
Underuse of Delaware River bridges during the past year's coronavirus pandemic is prompting officials to increase tolls for the first time in a decade. Tolls on the bridges operated by the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission will increase on April 11 and again in 2024 after commissioners voted Monday to raise them for the first time in 10 years. Commissioners cited the decline in passenger car traffic and toll revenue caused by the coronavirus pandemic and the burden of maintaining 13 toll “free” bridges with revenue from the seven toll bridges. The commission approved the toll inc…
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Toll
Hike
? Brace For Higher NJ Bridge Tolls Across Delaware River
Drivers who cross any of the eight Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission’s spans between New Jersey and Pennsylvania face two proposed toll increases this year and in 2024, authorities said. The need to hike state bridge tolls is being blamed on lost revenue during the coronavirus pandemic. The proposed increase, announced Monday, would be implemented on April 3, if approved by the board of commissioners at a March 29 meeting. The proposed hike comes just a month after the bridge commission approved a 2021 budget that state officials boasted had no toll hike. The 2021 proposed increa…
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Covid-
19: Phillipsburg Bridge Monitor Tests Positive
A bridge monitor at the Northampton Street Toll-Supported Bridge between Phillipsburg and Easton, PA has tested positive for COVID-19, Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission officials said Wednesday. The employee worked overnight shifts between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. Most recently, the employee worked shifts on March 30 and 31 as well as April 3, 4, 5, 8 and 9, WRNJRadio reports. “Out of an abundance of caution, the Commission is recommending pedestrians who crossed the Northampton Street Bridge in the overnight hours on the previously mentioned dates and may not have socially distanced the…
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