Late last month the New Jersey Turnpike Authority announced it may increase tolls on the Garden State Parkway and the New Jersey Turnpike. Public hearings on the “proposed capital plan and the toll rate adjustments necessary to fund it,” as stated on the NJTA website, are scheduled for March 18 and 19 in Woodbridge, Sicklerville and Mahwah.

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The Ocean County Board of Freeholders, in what it called “a preemptive strike,” on March 4 passed a resolution opposing any toll increase on the Garden State…