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Woodbury Toll Plaza
Project Information
- Project Location:
- Central Valley, NY
- Status:
- Completed
- Structure Type:
- Road / Highway
Scope Of Work
One of the busiest toll plazas on the NYS Thruway, the plaza’s original configuration had 15 lanes with 6 dedicated to E-Z Pass only and 9 as “mixed mode”. Just north of the Tappan Zee Bridge, the plaza handles around 42,000 vehicles a day and as many as 62,000 a day in the summer and holidays, with a total volume of 16 million vehicles annually.
Major reconstruction of the toll plaza performed by Yonkers Contracting Company included widening of approximately 2.5 miles of the Thruway mainline to provide four lanes, two in each direction, dedicated to Highway Speed E-Z Pass (65 mph). With traffic continuously moving through the plaza, reconstruction was performed over a 2-year period. Construction culminated with a two month period to complete the toll plaza area and open the long awaited Highway Speed E-Z Pass – the first on the Thruway’s system. Work included ITS improvements for both the new high-speed lanes and the traditional mixed use lanes.
The 70% of the travelers through the plaza using EZ pass can now breeze through the toll plaza – “a dramatic improvement to Transportation in the Hudson Valley” said the Thruway’s Executive Director.
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