Toll Booth Factoids

This Toll Booth is a virtual recreation of an actual toll booth from the William Preston Lane Jr. Memorial (Bay) Bridge.

The first toll collected at the Bay Bridge was from then-current Governor Theodore McKeldin on July 30, 1952.

An estimated 1.1 million vehicles traveled the Bay Bridge in 1952.

The first toll rate for the Bay Bridge was $1.40 in each direction in 1952.

Tolls were collected both ways on the Bay Bridge until April 1989.

There were nine toll booths at the Bay Bridge before the conversion to all electronic (cashless) tolling.

The last cash toll rate before all electronic tolling was $4.00

All-electronic tolling began on May 12, 2020, with tolls payable through E-ZPass or Video Tolling, and a new payment method called Pay-By-Plate was introduced in April 2021.