Tolls, PATCO Fees for Trips Over Delaware River to Increase Friday

Many trips between the Bryn Mawr-Gladwyne area and South Jersey will become more expensive starting this weekend, as the Delaware River Port Authority increases bridge tolls and PATCO 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 (the Port Authority Transit Corporation) will cost 10 percent more. PATCO's trains run between Philadelphia (terminal at 16th and Locust streets) and Lindenwold, N.J. An end-to-end trip will now cost $3.

A Main Line 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.