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State Route 16 (SR 16) is a 27.16-mile-long (43.71 km) state highway in the U.S. state of Washington, connecting Pierce and Kitsap counties. The highway, signed as east–west, begins at an interchange with Interstate 5 (I-5) in Tacoma and travels through the city as a freeway towards the Tacoma Narrows.
The toll collection system in place for the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which carries State Route 16 between the Kitsap Peninsula and Tacoma, has standard toll booth collection lanes as well as three electronic toll lanes that allow for tolls to be deducted from a prepaid account. Vehicles in this lane must have a Good to Go account when crossing ...
The Toll Bridge Authority began operating public ferries on June 1, 1951, when Washington State Ferries was created to take over the private Black Ball Line routes. [5] The agency was dissolved in 1977 and absorbed into the new Washington State Department of Transportation, which also took over the duties of the Department of Highways. [6]
NH 16 – Milton: $1.50 (Tolls by Mail/Non NH E-ZPass) $1.06 (NH E-ZPass) NH E-ZPass customers get a 30% discount at Dover and Rochester plazas. Tolls by Mail or E-ZPass on the entire length, cash collection ended on 17-18 October 2022. [60]
The old paper permits were difficult for toll cameras to read, giving new car drivers a 45-day grace period on toll fees — or longer, if they just left them on their vehicles. Those days are gone.
Electronic tolling with the "Good to Go" system began on the old bridge in 2011; tolling on the new bridge was in place from its opening in 2016. The tolls are projected to generate $1.2 billion by 2056 to pay off bonds for the project as well as bridge operations and maintenance, debt service, future repairs, insurance, and deferred sales tax. [2]
In 1937, the Washington State legislature created the Washington State Toll Bridge Authority and appropriated $5,000 to study the request by Tacoma and Pierce County for a bridge over the Narrows. The bridge was designed by Leon Moisseiff and cost $6.4 million. [6] The collapse of the original bridge.
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