Cameras to target Garden State Parkway toll cheats
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - October 15, 2011
Starting 12:01 a.m. Monday, cameras will be activated at the
highway's 84 exact-change lanes - on both the highway and ramps.
The cameras will record the license plates of drivers who don't pay
the proper tolls, including those who toss slugs and other debris
into the collection baskets instead of coins.
The vehicle's owner will then receive a bill for the toll - plus
a $50 administrative fee.
The New Jersey Turnpike Authority, which operates the parkway
and the turnpike, says the parkway has lost about $3.2 million in
revenue so far this year from toll cheats driving in exact-change
lanes. The parkway lost about $4 million overall last year in such
revenue.
