Remember commuter life before EZ Pass or Toll by Mail? You had to stop your car, roll down window, obtain Turnpike ticket at entry toll booth, and keep it safe until you exited. Upon exiting the Turnpike, you would usually give the ticket to a toll booth attendant. He or she would tell you the toll based of how far you drove, and the driver would pay the price listed. If you lost your ticket, you got banged as if you drove the whole length of the highway.
This particular ticket is from roughly 1998-2000 era of the New Jersey Turnpike. Perhaps someone out there can precisely date it based off the tolls?
Angela Fulgoni Lytle
Alicia Ann omg
The crooked demonrats are raising every tax and toll in the new year after raising them this year
The rats are low on cheese to steal. Rats are why NJ is # last in a list of states LAST = WORST
The rats broke the state with their RICO gangsters stealing with both hands and feet from the law abiding taxpaying CITIZEN so they can buy off more check suckers and deadbeats to vote RAT.
GTFO DOA NJ ASAP
Look how cheap! It’s now almost $7 to get off at Exit 11 from Newark and it’s $10 at exit 7A. Ridiculous!!
I just paid $15 to exit off 15w on turnpike
Stephen Sheldon Murphy is fun huh
Throwback!!
Mom Mom used to make us sit on the ticket. And when we came to the toll we had to get the money out. It felt like an important job. ????
I remember when the Parkway took tokens too
Matt Tottle I still have some
I cashed in most of what I had when they retired them but I kept a few
Matt Tottle would you want to sell one? I’d love to get my hands on one for a Christmas present
Matt Tottle I was just talking about these the other day crazy $.35 right?!
Aj Mogavero 25
Aj Mogavero then 35
Walter Allen oh true true
Walter Allen gotcha cool
Aj Mogavero you were right though. They may have been even cheaper than that
So many curse words exchanged dealing with this thing and the toll people
Michelle Lynn
Lea Anne omg. Lol
This used to confuse the hell out of me as a kid just looking at it lol
Omg!!! I totally forgot about these. Crazy!
Yes!
Here’s a collection of some of the best customer service stories from the toll collectors.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/18658/these-toll-collector-complaints-will-make-you-glad-you-dont-live-in-new-jersey
“Patron states that collector ‘snatched’ money and ticket out of his hand and the change was thrown back at him. Patron also states that collector told him to [expletive] his mother then a rock was thrown at his car,” reads one complaint from the New Jersey side of the Lincoln Tunnel, which crosses into Manhattan.
Ocean County Scanner News I don’t have ez pass and haven’t driven on the turnpike in years so what do they use now?
Ocean County Scanner News I wonder if it’s the same lady that told us “you must be fun at Christmas time’ when we used some change to pay. And then said “ass! Ass!!!” as we drove off.
Bryan Donahue
They should be sending you a bill based off your license plate.
That’s when the tickets were printed big enough that you could actually read them at a glance.
Life was so much cheaper then! What has government done to our livelihood? Be careful who you vote for in 2021!????
Nancy C. Reader WHY did U turn this into a political post!!
I remember If didn’t get one you paid the whole thing. Cause they didn’t know where you got on at.
Kim Savage Erickson same if you lost it. That thing was gold!
Omg yes and the tokens
I totally forgot! ????
Wow thank you for the memories!It did make you feel like you had an important job????
I was just rewatching “the sopranos” in the opening credits he rips one of those out of the machine and I’m like I remember those!
And holy crap if you lost it!! You were paying for round trip up and down the entire length of the turnpike!
Yeah, most of those are double digits now!
14A – my old exit. Now it’s like $5 lol
Nicole Frazier my old exit too. I noticed how cheap it was back then too
If you lived between Jersey City and Woodbridge, you knew these well. “Just hop on the turnpike” and yes, if you lost it you paid the highest toll
My exit 15 E
I’ve read the articles, doesn’t say anything about toll tickets gone. Did I miss something, haven’t used turnpike since March.
Oh my I forgot about them.
My wife and I are being charged over $300 by them for under $5 in tolls. We never received anything to pay when they closed it for covid. Seems like another scam to screw people out of money
You are who the d-rats hate [responsible people]] but love to tax rape 24/7 to feed their deadbeat filth that killed NJ.
GTFO rat ruined NJ ASAP.
I still use the toll tickets! Screw Easy Pass. Just another way for govt. to track your movements and habits…
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Ahh…when you could actually read the damn thing.
Wow long time ago.
Husband was a Collector early to mid 80’s
Annette Frattini later than that. I was a collector early 90s and interchange 11 to 13a or 14 was $1. This must be mid 90s
Wil Steinbach maybe, this is after the bigger tickets.
Wait.. that’s not still a thing? I’m pretty sure I did this recently going into the city ????
The real topic is when the EZ pass was shut down in April; they have been scheming people out of money and sending many paid debts that they have created by “suspending” full service.
Many people did not get their 30 and 60 day notices (especially because of lock down etc) and/or have paid at some point BUT did not receive notifications about the account and had to be submissive and defenseless when they got a notice for 200-$2000+. People who had as little as $3.00 in tolls now facing these fines.
This needs to be challenged, there are thousands of NJ residents in this predicament who are defenseless and unable to pay this outrageous fine.
My uncle Joe was a career toll taker on the turnpike. Usually 14, 14a, or 11
Patchy Albora
We can only imagine the stories.
Remember them? They still exist.
Yes!!!
What is this the twilight zone? Someone has been driving on the turnpike for 40 years just getting to their exit now?
Holy flashback????
Always remembered 16W for the sports plex Meadowlands. Not a devils fan, but saw them play many games against my Rangers there. 16W ironically also stood for 16 Wins, which is what it takes in the playoffs to win a Stanley Cup. The Devils used that slogan in their cup years!
People in police type uniforms would hand them to you when you entered the Turnpike and all money was taken by someone in person. Only the Parkway had the coin toss baskets. The ticket on the Turnpike had to be read to see what exit you started at and then charge you based on how far you drove
Yes, one way oulling a trailer 32.00
Pulling
most grouchiest, unfriendly group of people i ever had the pleasure of dealing with…..a NJTP Toll Collector.