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The New Jersey Turnpike (NJTP) is a system of controlled-access toll roads in the U.S. state of New Jersey.The turnpike is maintained by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. [a] The 117.2-mile (188.6 km) mainline's southern terminus is at the Delaware Memorial Bridge on I-295 in Pennsville.
This is a list of turnpike roads, built and operated by private companies in exchange for the privilege of collecting a toll, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, mainly in the 19th century. While most of the roads are now maintained as free public roads, some have been abandoned.
The agency is headquartered in Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The NJTA was created in 1949 to oversee construction and maintenance of the New Jersey Turnpike. In 2003, the authority assumed control of the Garden State Parkway, which had previously been maintained by an agency known as the New Jersey Highway Authority (NJHA).
On July 9, 2003, Governor Jim McGreevey's plan to disband the New Jersey Highway Authority and give control of the parkway to the New Jersey Turnpike Authority (NJTA) was completed. [165] Additionally, in November of that year, construction was completed on the $16.23 million exit 89, a new southbound exit and northbound entrance in Lakewood ...
The Newark-Pompton Turnpike (now known in portions of its former route as Pompton Avenue, Route 23, and Bloomfield Avenue), is a roadway in northern New Jersey that was originally a tolled turnpike. The roadway was first laid out in the mid-18th century and given its name in 1806.
The controversial plan to widen the New Jersey Turnpike in Jersey City near the entrance to the Holland Tunnel for $10.7 billion ... the largest in the state's history, in Trenton, NJ on June 29 ...
In July 1963, New Jersey Governor Richard J. Hughes approved a plan to build I-78 through the city of Newark at a cost of $205 million (equivalent to $1.56 billion in 2023 [16]). This plan had been opposed by several communities along the route. [17] The section of I-78 between Route 24 and the New Jersey Turnpike was completed in the mid-1970s ...
The state Turnpike Authority has failed to act since then. Gov. Phil Murphy in October effectively vetoed a budget because of a 3% toll hike. The state Turnpike Authority has failed to act since then.