Delaware Water Gap Toll Bridge - Interstate 80

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The Delaware Water Gap Toll Bridge is a toll bridge that carries Interstate 80 across the Delaware River at the Delaware Water Gap, connecting Hardwick Township, New Jersey and Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania. The bridge was built by the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission. The 2,465 foot-long bridge is a multiple span dual roadway with a steel plate structure. The roadways are 28-feet wide each and separated from each other by a concrete Jersey barrier.

The Delaware Water Gap Toll Bridge, Portland–Columbia Toll Bridge and the Milford-Montague Toll Bridge were all constructed simultaneously by the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission, with work on all three started on October 15, 1951, and all three bridge openings spaced approximately every two weeks in December 1953.

The facility opened to the public on December 16, 1953 at ceremonies attended by Governor of Pennsylvania John S. Fine and Governor of New Jersey Alfred E. Driscoll.The bridge carried US 611 (now Pennsylvania Route 611) for four miles in New Jersey to a connection with Route 94. Interstate 80 was routed onto the bridge in 1959. The western NJ section of Interstate 80 opened in 1972.

Westbound tolls were removed in the 1990's, doubling the toll eastbound. In 2011, a seperate E-ZPass lane was opened for electronic toll collection user so that they need not use the older collection booths.