Garden State Parkway
The Garden State Parkway (or Garden State Pkwy) is a toll highway (which means that people must pay to drive on it) that goes through New Jersey from the south end of the state at Cape May to the north end of the state at Montvale, New Jersey. It is 172.4 miles long,[1] and in 2008, was reported to be the busiest toll highway in the United States.[2] It had its a splashy roadway built from 1953 to 1957, with major improvements beginning less than two years later, these include building ramps onto the road from scratch to close existing ones, building new ramps, and adding lanes to the road.
Garden State Parkway | ||||
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| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by New Jersey Turnpike Authority | ||||
| Length | 172.40 mi[1] (277.45 km) | |||
| Existed | 1950–present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
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| North end | G.S. Pkwy. Connector to Lua error in Module:Jct at line 204: attempt to concatenate local 'link' (a boolean value). at Ramapo, NY | |||
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| Highway system | ||||
| New Jersey Turnpike Authority | ||||
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Garden State Parkway Media
- MUTCD D6-4.svg
MUTCD guide sign
- Ellipse sign 444.svg
Route 444 shield, the Parkway's unsigned designation.
- 2020-09-02 15 28 18 View south along New Jersey State Route 47 (Wildwood Boulevard) at the exit for the Garden State Parkway NORTH in Middle Township, Cape May County, New Jersey.jpg
Typical entrance sign for the parkway
Garden State Parkway southbound, approaching the southern terminus at Route 109 in Lower Township
Garden State Parkway southbound in Cape May Court House
- 2020-07-11 13 19 03 View north along New Jersey State Route 444 (Garden State Parkway) at Exit 38B (Atlantic City Expressway WEST, Camden) in Egg Harbor Township, Atlantic County, New Jersey.jpg
Garden State Parkway northbound at the Atlantic City Expressway in Egg Harbor Township
- 2020-07-11 13 33 56 View north along U.S. Route 9 and New Jersey State Route 444 (Garden State Parkway) at Exit 50 (U.S. Route 9 NORTH, New Gretna, Tuckerton) in Bass River Township, Burlington County, New Jersey.jpg
Garden State Parkway northbound at split with U.S. Route 9 in Bass River Township
- 2021-05-27 11 45 01 View south along New Jersey State Route 444 (Garden State Parkway) from the overpass for Ocean County Route 614 (Lacey Road) in Lacey Township, Ocean County, New Jersey.jpg
Garden State Parkway southbound at CR 614 in Lacey Township
- 2020-07-11 14 35 46 View north along New Jersey State Route 444 (Garden State Parkway) at Exit 98 (New Jersey State Route 138 EAST, Interstate 195 WEST, New Jersey State Route 34, Belmar, Trenton) in Wall Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey.jpg
Garden State Parkway northbound at I-195, Route 138, and Route 34 in Wall Township
- 2020-07-11 14 54 44 View north along New Jersey State Route 444 (Garden State Parkway) at Exit 105 (New Jersey State Route 36 NORTH, New Jersey State Route 18 NORTH, Eatontown, Long Branch, New Brunswick) in Tinton Falls, Monmouth County, New Jersey.jpg
Garden State Parkway northbound at the interchange with Route 18 and Route 36 in Tinton Falls
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Garden State Parkway straight line diagram" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Transportation. Retrieved December 8, 2009.
- ↑ "USA Today reports dramatically more expensive tolls - lousy data (ANALYSIS) | Toll Roads News". Archived from the original on 2008-09-05. Retrieved 2011-04-22.
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