The Maryland Transportation Authority is on pace to collect about $1 million less from tolls on the Bay Bridge than it did last year.

Through July, the authority had collected an estimated $632,257 less than it had through July of last year.

If that pace continues through the end of the year, the decline will be slightly more than $1 million.

The loss amounts to 3.2 percent of the revenue collected from tolls on the bridge, and the authority said operations won't be affected.

"We're always closely monitoring traffic and revenue," said Lindsay Reilly, an authority spokesman. "We'll continue to monitor them in the...