Traffic & Transit

Toll Increase Coming To NJ Turnpike—Again

NJ's Transportation Commissioner said tolls will increase in 2024 during a Senate Budget Committee hearing on Tuesday.

NEW JERSEY — Expect tolls to increase on the Garden State Parkway and New Jersey Turnpike beginning next year, transportation officials said.

Department of Transportation commissioner Diane Guttierrez-Scaccetti said tolls will increase in 2024 during a Senate Budget Committee hearing on Tuesday.

“Tolls will go up on January 1," she said. "The indexing of tolls will occur on January 1."

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Guttierrez-Scaccetti did not say by how much the amount will increase by, and did not specify if tolls will increase on the Atlantic City Expressway. She added that the NJ DOT does not foresee increasing tolls for the Hudson Tunnel Project.

Tolls have gone up on the region's largest toll highways for the past three years including a 3 percent hike in both 2022 and 2023.

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