To the Editor:

While seniors are struggling to survive the lingering economic impacts of the pandemic, inflation and possible recession, tolls on the Garden State Parkway will increase for the third time in four years. On Jan. 1, 2023, tolls will rise 3%, the same rate they increased last year.

To put it bluntly, seniors cannot afford to pay higher tolls at a time when gas prices are increasing, leaving them little choice but to abandon the Garden State Parkway and use Route 9, the only other north-south…

November 3, 2022