Outerbridge Crossing

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The Outerbridge Crossing is a cantilever bridge over the Arthur Kill connecting Perth Amboy, New Jersey with Staten Island, New York. Known locally as the "Outerbridge", it is part of a popular route on NY-440/NJ-440 from the south and west to New York City and Long Island.

Tolls are collected in the eastbound direction only. The cash toll is $6 for passenger vehicles. Users of E-ZPass pay a discounted toll of $5 during peak hours (6-9 am and 4-7 pm) or $4 at other times.

It is a steel truss cantilever construction, designed by John Alexander Low Waddell and built under the auspices of the Port of New York Authority, now the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which currently operates it.

It opened simultaneously with the Goethals Bridge on June 29, 1928. The design of the bridge is very similar to that of the Goethals Bridge.

The name of the bridge is something of an anomaly in that its name seems to suggest its function. It is the "outer" (that is the most southern) bridge of both the State of New York and of Staten Island. In fact, it was named for Eugenius H. Outerbridge, the first chairman of the then-Port of New York Authority and a resident of Staten Island.

In recent years, the bridge has undergone numerous repair jobs as a result of the high volume of traffic that crosses the bridge each day.

External link

[Outerbridge Crossing Historic Overview] at Steve Anderson's nycroads.com

Bridges and tunnels in New York City
Bridges	Bayonne Bridge \| Brooklyn Bridge \| Bronx Whitestone Bridge \| City Island Bridge \| Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge \| George Washington Bridge \| Goethals Bridge \| Hell Gate Bridge \| Henry Hudson Bridge \| Joseph P. Addabbo Memorial Bridge \| Kosciuszko Bridge \| Manhattan Bridge \| Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge \| Outerbridge Crossing \| Queensboro Bridge \| Throgs Neck Bridge \| Triborough Bridge \| Verrazano-Narrows Bridge \| Williamsburg Bridge
Tunnels	Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel \| Holland Tunnel \| Lincoln Tunnel \| Queens Midtown Tunnel
Operators	Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority \| Metropolitan Transportation Authority \| Port Authority of New York and New Jersey \| New York City Department of Transportation \| New York State Department of Transportation \| Amtrak

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