Welcome to the Woodbury Mobility Improvement Project Website

In 2006, the New York State Thruway Authority began improving operations at the existing toll barrier by working towards the implementation of Highway Speed E-ZPass. Since its introduction in 1993, E-ZPass usage has continued to grow.  Today, E-ZPass revenue makes up approximately 69% of the Authority’s toll revenue.  The Authority is committed to providing high levels of safety and service to its users.  Highway Speed E-ZPass is one such initiative that the Authority is implementing to fulfill this commitment. 

Highway Speed E-ZPass lanes will allow E-ZPass customers to electronically pay their tolls without slowing from highway speeds.  Cash and ticket traffic will still need to slow down from highway speeds, stop at a toll booth, make their transactions and accelerate back to highway speeds.  Highway Speed E-ZPass vehicles are physically separated from the cash and ticket vehicles through the use of concrete barriers as they approach and leave the toll barrier.   

Highway Speed E-ZPass is a proven technology that can process significantly more vehicles than conventional E-ZPass lanes or staffed toll lanes.  The processing rate of a Highway Speed E-ZPass lane is twice the capacity of a conventional E-ZPass lane and up to ten times the capacity of a combination cash/E-ZPass lane.  Highway Speed E-ZPass will minimize delays and reduce exhaust emissions from idling vehicles. 

Highway Speed E-ZPass is the latest example of the Authority providing innovative solutions to increasingly complex problems while continuing to provide high levels of safety and service to its customers.

While the project progresses, and as the Authority works to provide Highway Speed E-ZPass (65 mph) to its customers in the Spring of 2010, traffic patterns within, and approaching, the Toll Plaza are constantly changing.  For example, in the Spring of 2010, for an eight-week period, five (5) lanes of the Woodbury Toll Plaza will be completely closed to traffic, during which time demolition of the existing lanes and reconstruction of the four (4) new Highway Speed E-ZPass lanes will take place.

For more information on Highway Speed E-ZPass visit the Authority website under Projects & Studies (Project Design Elements, Highway) or under Highway Speed E-ZPass at Spring Valley.