1/11/06-A bill in the Assembly Transportation and Public Works Committee would limit the direction in which tolls could be collected at certain toll plazas.
Sponsored by Assemblyman Jeff Van Drew, D-Vineland, A1058 would require the Turnpike Authority to collect tolls only in the southbound direction at the Great Egg and Cape May barrier toll plazas on the Garden State Parkway. Toll booths in the northbound direction would be removed.
Van Drew wrote that “by requiring the authority to discontinue northbound toll collections at those plazas in favor of southbound collections, emergency evacuations from the Shore area in the northbound direction will be facilitated.”
For bill status, call (609) 292-4840. In New Jersey, call 1-800-792-8630.