The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge will begin its new split-tolling procedures on Tuesday.

Split tolling means that tolls will be collected from drivers driving in either direction on the bridge. Previously, drivers only paid the toll when they were traveling westbound from Brooklyn to Staten Island.

It will the first time since March 19, 1986 that split tolling will be in effect on the bridge.

Drivers with E-ZPass will now pay $6.12 each way, as opposed to the $12.24 they paid when one-way tolling was in effect.

Staten Island residents with an E-ZPass will pay $2.75 in each direction instead of $5.50 during one-way tolling.

Toll by mail goes from $19 with one-way tolling to $9.50 under the split tolling model.

The MTA says new signs are being placed in both directions, and that it has informed navigation apps of the change.

The one-way toll was instituted by Congress to cut down on traffic building up at toll booths in the borough.

But it caused traffic problems elsewhere in the city because motorists and truckers heading to New Jersey would avoid the toll by taking the free Holland Tunnel, a journey that took them from the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, over the Manhattan Bridge and through Canal Street.

Since New York removed its toll booths and installed overhead E-ZPass readers, members of Congress from New York brought back the two-way toll without fear of traffic congestion.

For more information, visit the MTA's website.