How to minimize tolls when driving past NYC

4/14/2021 11:59:13 AM

I agree with Andrew. I travel between Olney, MD and Hanover, NH. It’s simple. I put my address, with destination as Hanover, NH and then I put Tappan Zee Bridge as a "stop" and that’s it. It will avoid all the NYC stuff. Much easier drive too.

1/13/2021 3:20:32 PM

Nate has rightly pointed out the three bridge options for minimizing the toll expenses while traveling through NYC. Among them, the most economical would be Tappan Zee Bridge.

Say you travel between Silver Spring, MD and Amherst, MA regularly. The usual route is to take I95 through George Washington Bridge which costs around $40 in tolls whereas if you take I78 and pass through Tappan Zee Bridge, you’ll save 30 bucks straight.

However, Google Maps is not good at suggesting routes like this to minimize tolls but there are plethora of trip planner apps/websites (just Google;). You can try tollguru; have heard it is popular among New Yorkers. It shows alternate routes with varying toll charges. I calculated the above costs there only.

10/11/2020 7:18:22 AM

It’s simpler than you might think.

Look at the map (with tolls removed), decide which roads you do not want to travel on and use an alternative route.

A quick check of the geography shows that alternative bridges are a ways upriver, the I84 doesn’t add that much time.

9/30/2020 1:20:57 AM

You have to cross the Hudson River somewhere, so its bridges are natural choke points. The three closest to, but not entering, New York City are:

The bridges further north would likely be too far out of your way (the next is the Mid-Hudson bridge, 75 miles north of NYC). So you can try your route with your favorite online route planner, adding each of these three bridges successively as intermediate stops, and see which route looks best.

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