It takes a bureaucracy of more than 800 people to collect Garden State Parkway tolls. This total includes a pro-rata share of E-ZPass personnel. Imagine if each state highway had such a bureaucracy.
Toll collecting is a 24/7 operation, so the costly toll-collection operation must be in place even at 3 a.m., when traffic is extremely light.
A 1 cent gasoline tax dedicated to eliminating parkway tolls would be more than enough to operate the parkway and in turn would save motorists millions of dollars in toll-collecting expenses.
The time to end parkway tolls is now, before additional millions are spent on various schemes to try to perpetuate tolls.
Raymond Neveil
president
Citizens Against Tolls