TOLL HIKE - in case you forgot - GSP NJ Turnpike

New rates begin Dec. 1

Toll hikes approved for Parkway, Turnpike, A.C. Expressway

The Expressway increase raises the Egg Harbor Plaza toll from its $2 to $3. Tolls at most ramps along the Expressway will rise from 50 cents to 75 cents.

Under the plan the Turnpike Authority approved, a driver now paying $1.20 for the average 23-mile trip on the turnpike would pay $1.70, starting in December, and $2.60 in 2012. The increase is 10 cents less than the authority's earlier proposal for each toll increase.

Parkway tolls would increase from 35 cents to 50 cents in December, and to 75 cents in 2012. Another 10-cent increase in 2023 was eliminated.

The plan continues the current 25 percent discount during off-peak hours for cars with E-ZPass and provides a new 10 percent discount during off-peak hours for E-ZPass drivers who are at least 65 years old and an extra 10 percent discount for drivers of fuel-efficient vehicles...
(Star Ledger)

http://www.state.nj.us/turnpike/2008_GSP_tollrates-revised-101008-dec.pdf


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Summer Peaches And Tomato Gardens

Sucking on a peach pit is the perfect way to while away a steamy summer afternoon.

Roll it around carefully and use the pointed end of the pit to pick out the strands of peach fuzz and pulp between teeth.

All this while the taste of fresh peach tingles through your cheeks.

One of the first things Dad did when we moved into the big house in Belleville was to chop down the black walnut trees and plant a half-dozen peach trees in their stead.

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Parkway Tokens Pave Path To Hell

... We've always wondered if the old wives who said misery loves company ever spent time, endless smog-filled rush hours in line, attempting to pay a toll on the Garden State Parkway.

In countless hours of studying the pained expressions of obsessed drivers queued before the flashing red and green lights at the roadway obstructions, we have never recorded a smile other than the maniacal grin as someone launches a round metal missile at the urinal shaped receptacle.

These token tumbling commuters are not happy campers.

If only they knew how happy they should be. They have the privilege of tooling along the Garden State Parkway from the northern most part of the state to the southernmost pausing occasionally to hurl a coin or two.



Toll booth advocates espouse the logic of strategically placed roadblocks that make the highway more democratic.

For one thing, toll plazas make just about everyone drive at the same speed: zero.

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The Parkway - Like Deer in a Headlight

These days, what with the Garden State Parkway being taken over by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority and our temporary governor eliminating toll booths in favor of double-fares one-way, well the Garden State Parkway isn't the tall doofy kid in class every one used to make fun of. Now it's been made to practically behave like a good neighbor. (Yeah, sure!) A genuine A-Student. Like Eddie Haskell.

Before you know it all the waste will be trimmed from its budget and we won't be able to poke fun at the Parkway ANYMORE. (Just don't hold your breath waiting.)

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