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tsmatt13:
Have you encountered any bridges that have toll booths in the middle of the bridge? There are two that I know of in NJ: the Grassy Sound Bridge and the Middle Thorofare Bridge. Both of these bridges have toll booths servicing one side but not the other, and I believe they are also drawbridges as well. Are there any other examples of this close to where you are from?  :D

What one of these looks like: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0297552,-74.8009117,3a,75y,36.7h,91.72t,0.51r/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSMIkmLqNcMOsn5Kf0DFtRw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

jeffandnicole:

--- Quote from: tsmatt13 on June 25, 2022, 06:21:56 PM ---Have you encountered any bridges that have toll booths in the middle of the bridge? There are two that I know of in NJ: the Grassy Sound Bridge and the Middle Thorofare Bridge. Both of these bridges have toll booths servicing one side but not the other, and I believe they are also drawbridges as well. Are there any other examples of this close to where you are from?  :D

What one of these looks like: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0297552,-74.8009117,3a,75y,36.7h,91.72t,0.51r/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSMIkmLqNcMOsn5Kf0DFtRw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

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Most of the Cape May County Bridge Commission Bridges operate in this fashion.  Before they went with one way tolling, they would collect the toll in each direction. Normally one toll collector would alternate collecting the toll from both directions; on busier days around the weekend, they would squeeze two collectors in the small booth.

Max Rockatansky:
The original Seven Mile Bridge had one on Pigeon Key in the center of the span.

cl94:
The Tobin Bridge in Massachusetts had its toll plaza between the two through truss sections. The booths were removed in the mid-2010s after AET was implemented and the current toll gantries are on the southwest approaches.

MCRoads:
Does the Tri-Burroughs bridge complex count? IIRC it had 2 large toll plazas in a configuration where each motorist only had to pay 1 toll, no matter what way they were going.

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