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Amid criticism, ground broken for N.J. Turnpike widening

$2.7 billion will be spent to increase lanes from East Brunswick to Pa. Turnpike interchange BY TOM HESTER SR. NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

State officials broke ground Thursday in East Windsor on a $2.7 billion project that will widen the New Jersey Turnpike, one of the nation's busiest highways.

The project will increase the number of lanes from 6 and 10 to 12 and keep the lanes divided along a 25-mile stretch of the roadway between Cranbury and the Pennsylvania Turnpike interchange near Mansfield. Another 10 miles of roadway will be expanded from 10 lanes to 12 between Cranbury and East Brunswick.

Presently, traffic frequently backs up along the stretch that will be widened as 12 lanes are reduced to 10 and than 6. The turnpike carries an average 680,000 vehicles daily and is a major East Coast link between New York and Boston in the north and Philadelphia and Washington in the south.

via http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/state/amid-cri...

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