No more tolls on the Coleman Bridge between Yorktown and Gloucester

The George P. Coleman Bridge carries Route 17 across the York River between Yorktown and Gloucester Point. Since the bridge was rebuilt in the mid-1990s, drivers heading north into Gloucester paid a toll of 85 cents to $4. Since August 8, 2025, crossing is free. You don’t need to do anything to get the savings.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, proposed ending the toll in his December 2024 amendments to the state budget, and the General Assembly adopted the change with a deadline of January 1, 2026. The state had already repaid the bonds that financed the bridge, but the bridge still owed $29.6 million to the Toll Facility Revolving Account when the change was proposed. The budget allowed any balance that bridge funds could not cover to go unreimbursed, so the state toll fund absorbed the remaining cost.

The governor’s transportation briefing estimated that the bridge collected $5.9 million a year, with 45% going to toll operations and about $3.6 million left for debt repayment. Replacing the aging toll equipment would have cost roughly $6 million. The same briefing estimated that drivers would have paid $54 million in tolls through 2034 if collection continued. Citing those costs, the state stopped collecting nearly five months early. Republican legislators from the area, including Sen. Danny Diggs of York County, publicly backed the change.