Garden
State Parkway: The
Garden State Parkway is known for its beautiful landscaping and well
maintained roadside travel view. It is also one of the nation?s safest
highways. In 2003 the Parkway was added to the New Jersey Turnpike
Authority?s domain, but is still run as if it were an autonomous entity.
This 175
mile north south roadway hugs the eastern seaboard side of the state
beginning in Cape May, New Jersey - mere miles from lands end, where
New Jersey?s peninsula juts out to where the Atlantic Ocean meets the
Delaware Bay.The Southern sections of the Garden State Parkway, while
paralleling the coastline, are far enough inland to be in the wilderness
section of the state known as the Pine Barrens. It is the southern
portion of this road that features wide planted medians to prevent
head-on collisions and mask the glare of on-coming headlights. The speed
limit is 50 mph between Milepost 8.0 to Milepost 11.5 in Middle
Township, where the Parkway is crossed by local roadways at
traffic-lighted, full stop intersections.
Paralleling US
Route 9 for most of it?s northern journey, and having a concurrency with it for
three miles in Toms River, NJ, it intersects with the Atlantic City Expressway
as well as US Routes 30, 40, 70 and 72 in the southern portion of the state.
Each of these east west roads feed traffic to seashore resort towns. Once it
leaves Ocean County the roadway turns inward away from the coast and mixes with
the heavily congested traffic system that is native to Northern New Jersey and
New York and is considered the metropolitan section. Terminating in Montvale,
NJ at the state line, the roadway actually runs in its present signed form for
another two miles into New York State where it ?officially? ends at the
interchange with The New York State Thruway System at Interstate 87.
From the Asbury
Park toll plaza through the Raritan area toll plaza, the Parkway splits into
outer local lanes and inner express lanes having limited exits. While busses can
run the entire length of the Parkway, commercial trucks over 8000 lbs. must exit
north of Asbury Park, the metroploitan section of the Garden State Parkway.
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