Northbound Lane on Henry Hudson Bridge to Close for up to 4 Weeks

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS-INWOOD, NY — Starting Friday Nov. 25 northbound approach traffic on the Henry Hudson Bridge — one of two bridges connecting Inwood to the Bronx — will be reduced to two lanes.

Drivers looking to travel from uptown to the west side of the Bronx will face delays for as long as a month as the MTA closes lanes on the bridge in order to demolish upper level toll booths on the bridge, according to an MTA press release. The toll booths are beings demolished in order to make the bridge an Open Road Cashless Tolling operation.

Open Road tolling will remove booths in order to reduce congestion on the bridge, according to an MTA press release from October. Drivers will not be required to stop while on the bridge, and cameras and sensors will record which cars cross the bridge. Drivers with E-ZPass will be billed as normal and drivers without E-ZPass will have a bill mailed to their address, according to the press release.

As the MTA works to demolish the toll booths traffic approaching the toll plaza will reduce from three to two lanes. But once drivers are back on the main span of the bridge three-lane traffic will resume, according to a press release.

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