New Hope-Lambertville Toll Bridge

The New Hope-Lambertville Toll Bridge, commonly referred to as simply the Lambertville Toll Bridge is a plate girder bridge over the Delaware River between New Hope, Pennsylvania and Lambertville, New Jersey. The bridge is one of two crossings connecting these two towns and is much newer than the crossing downstream, the New Hope-Lambertville Bridge.

The New Hope-Lambertville Toll Bridge opened in 1971 as a bypass of the New Hope-Lambertville Bridge. With it's completion, US Route 202 was finally completed from Maine Pennsylvania. Approximately at the same time that the New Hope-Lambertville Toll Bridge opened, the New-Hope Lambertville Bridge downstream was posted at a maximum weight limit of 12 tons, to encourage large trucks to use the newer span. This weight limit was later lowered to 8 tons and then 4 tons, now hereby prohibiting all commercial traffic from using the historic bridge.

The New Hope-Lambertville Bridge is similar in design to the Scudder Falls Bridge downstream and the Portland-Columbia Bridge upstream. The bridge charges a $1.00 toll for traveling westbound into Pennsylvania - the first bridge upstream on the Delaware within 20 miles to do so.

Additionally, the New Hope-Lambertville Bridge includes a backspan crossing over the Delaware and Raritan Canal - the third bridge upstream on the Delaware to do so.