delaware river

Delaware River Port Authority are hiring Stantec to do design work on the open road toll lanes being done on the Betsy Ross toll bridge. They say they hope to the ORT lanes, being branded Express E-ZPass in operation in 2011. They hope it can be copied at the Commodore Barry Bridge.

Affiliated Computer Systems (ACS) has won the open road tolling (ORT) contract for the I-78 and I-80 bridges over the Delaware River between New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

A little history is prompted by this nice picture of "a bridge on the Delaware River" we found on the web by a local photographer. It is confirmed by the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission as their Washington Crossing Bridge 8 miles (13km) upstream of Trenton.

US-1 at the Delaware River near downtown Trenton NJ has a new toll plaza. The $6m project is part of a larger $100m+ rehabbing of the Trenton-Morrisville Bridge which is the major link between the New Jersey capital and Philadelphia. And pre-NJ Turnpike US1 was the main route Boston-NYC-Philadelphia-Baltimore Wash DC.

The upper Delaware River bridges between New Jersey and Pennsylvania are getting a $20.6m detection and surveillance system to protect them against attack and natural disasters like floods, and to improve response to incidents. The security system includes video surveillance, intelligent video, building access control and intrusion detection, a central control center, and communications systems for video, data, and voice transmissions.