NJ: Your last chance to use or turn in those Garden State Parkway tokens.

[randomness]

The Garden State Parkway raised tolls as of 1 December 2008. Not coincidentally, the Parkway will stop accepting tokens after 1 January 2009. Until then, they are still taking them at the toll plazas. They're also running a token redemption program. The website lists the Montvale (mile 171), Cheesequake (mile 124), and Forked River (mile 76) service areas as redemption locations, as well as the Turnpike administration offices in Woodbridge. (Note that the hours are extremely restricted; the Montvale service area hours are already over, and Cheesequake's hours start tomorrow.)

When the tokens were issued, they cost 33 and a third cents, and could be used to pay a 35 cent toll. Now that that toll is up to 50 cents, what are they worth at the toll plaza? I think I need to ask someone at a redemption location.

If any of you (particularly those of you in New Jersey) find out, please advise.

Cheers.

Comments

[nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com]

Cheesequake is my second-favorite Jersey town name!

Number one: Stinking Gorge.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Jersey is blessed (?) with some remarkable town names.

bedfull_o_books particularly likes Ho-Ho-Kus.

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Oh! And Hacklebarney State Park!

[emilymorgan.livejournal.com]

I like Mahwah. It's fun to say.

[gee-tar.livejournal.com]

What I find interesting is that by growing up with the Leni Lenape based nomenclature, I don't find anything strange about the names until someone takes the time to point out the odd phonetics.

A little sad about the token situation anymore. Sure, it's long outlived its usefulness thanks to E-ZPass, but it seems like the end of an era for me.

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Apropos of nothing, "Cheesequake" is one of my favorite place names ever.

[belfrynotes.livejournal.com]

Apropos of equally nothing, I offer my favorite place name ever, which is in Nevada: Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park.

That said, Cheesequake is number two with a bullet at the moment.

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

If anyone who reads your journal has them and wants to get rid of them we'll be making a trip down there for the winter holiday thing and would be happy to buy a few off people.