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DelDOT reports traffic up on First State roads over Labor Day holiday

Delaware Public Media

More drivers passed through Delaware’s three toll plazas during the Labor Day weekend than last year, but revenue collections remained flat.

 

DelDOT counted roughly 940,000 vehicles at the plazas, generating about $2.6 million. About 865,000 drivers crossed through Delaware toll plazas in 2014.

 

The biggest surge in traffic came on Friday for all three plazas on I-95, Biddles Corner and Dover. Fewer returned on Labor Day itself.

 

Most people traveled through I-95 tollbooths, but the Route 1 Dover toll plaza saw the biggest gains in traffic compared to last year, tallying an extra 60,000 drivers this past weekend.

 

In 2014, state officials hiked weekend toll rates on Route 1 from two to three dollars.

 

DelDOT says 65 percent of all toll paying drivers used E-ZPass over the holiday.

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