VN-50 anniversary

Come March, it will cost cash-paying drivers $16 to cross the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. (Staten Island Advance/Jan Somma-Hammel)

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The MTA approved a hike for both bridge tolls and subway fares, to go into effect in March.

The board voted to raise bridge and tunnel tolls by 4 percent for E-ZPass customers, and about 6 percent for cash customers. It will cost drivers who pay cash $16 to cross the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.

The board voted to raise the base subway fare 10 percent -- from $2.50 to $2.75.

Allan Cappelli, Staten Island's only MTA board member, was the only vote against the hike. He said the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge toll increase was "unreasonable" and that more needs to be done by way of Staten Island's mass transit system.

The MTA estimates that it will raise $210 million in 2015 from the increases and $260 million in the years following.

The increase will go into effect on March 22.