Yesterday, the New Jersey Turnpike Authority's board requested that tolls be raised starting in 2009 to help pay for much needed transportation projects. The increases will go towards widening the New Jersey Turnpike (Exits 6 to 8A) and the Garden State Parkway (Exits 63 to 80 and around Atlantic City); providing $1.2 billion over 10 years to fund a mass transit rail tunnel into Manhattan; ensuring bridge safety; and increasing funding to New Jersey Transit.
Tolls on the Parkway would increase from 35 cents to 50 cents in 2009, 75 cents in 2012 and 85 cents in 2023. Drivers that today pay on average $1.20 on the Turnpike see tolls increase to $1.80 next year, $2.70 in 2012 and $3 in 2023.
While the State Chamber and the Platform Coalition have not taken an official position on the current proposal, the organization has supported the projects mentioned in order to improve our transportation infrastructure and boost our economy.
The last time Turnpike tolls increased was in 2000 and Parkway tolls have not gone up since 1989.
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