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A rendering of a plan to install LED lights at the Verrazano Bridge that will blink and change color when choreographed with music and other cues. (Courtesy of Gov. Andrew Cuomo/Flickr)

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Soon the toll you pay to cross the Verrazano Bridge will come with a choreographed light show set to music.

It's not a joke, it's a plan straight from the office of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who intends on decking each of the seven MTA-controlled bridges in New York City with LED lights that will blink and change color timed along with music.

Cuomo announced his plans in October and reiterated them to reporters on Tuesday while speaking about the state budget.

The governor boasted about his plans, noting that while similar lights can be seen on bridges in other cities, New York's will be unparalleled, the Associated Press reported.

Cuomo said the new lights would save money since LED lights last longer and are more energy-efficient than regular lights.

In October, officials said the lights would be installed beginning this month.

The lights would be on from dusk until dawn.

The plan, deemed the New York Crossings Project, "will reconfigure toll plazas into modern transportation gateways," Cuomo's office said in its October announcement. "Plaza walls will be transformed by veils that shield security personnel and equipment, while acting as LED message boards."

While the design will vary for each crossing, "each automated tolling structure on MTA-operated bridges and tunnels will be covered with a decorative artwork presenting a 'wave' effect. The wave will be constructed from chainmail fabric which moves with the wind."

A video put out by the governor's office shows the city's crossings lit up in various colors in honor of things like breast cancer awareness, gay pride and celebrating the 4th of July and a future Mets World Series win.

Set to Alicia Keys' "Empire State of Mind," the two-minute video shows Throgs Neck, Bronx-Whitestone, Verrazano-Narrows, Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial, Henry Hudson, Robert F. Kennedy, Cross Bay Veterans Memorial bridges. It also shows the George Washington Bridge, which is owned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

The video also shows the lights on the Queens-Midtown Tunnel and the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel.