That includes the Lincoln & Holland tunnels and the George Washington bridge to Manhattan, as well as the Bayonne, Goethals and the Outerbridge Crossing bridge to Staten Island.

All tolls are collected eastbound, and westbound is free.

If your trip is to Brooklyn or beyond on Long Island, its another $15 for the Verrazano Bridge, collected in the Brooklyn to Staten Island direction. This can be avoided by going to Brooklyn via the Verrazano and then coming back via the Brooklyn or Manhattan bridges, traffic permitting.

http://www.panynj.gov/bridges-tunnels/tolls.html
http://www.thruway.ny.gov/travelers/tolls/schedules/barrier.html
http://web.mta.info/bandt/traffic/btmain.html#cars

Chris Christie couldn't raise tolls without Cuomo's agreement. And Christie has appointed only 3 of 12 commissioners.

'The toll hikes remain contentious. A February audit of the authority, conducted as a condition of support for the toll hikes by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, found a $4 billion cost over-run at the World Trade Center and an average salary for authority employees of $143,000 per year. Both governors used the audit as an occasion to blast the authority for wasteful spending.

New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg held a congressional hearing on Wednesday to grill Bill Baroni, deputy executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, about the fairness of the hikes. The hearing devolved into political theater as Baroni, a Christie appointee, told Lautenberg he was unfit to investigate the impact of the toll hikes because the senator had, for five years, used the bridges and tunnels for free, a perk of his former position as a Port Authority commissioner.'

http://www.wnyc.org/story/201796-toll-hikes-are-thinning-traffic-ny-nj-port-authority-crossings/

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