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Until this Friday if you were on NJ50 at Interchange 17 in Hamilton township you could only get on the Atlantic City Expressway to travel west to Philadelphia. And traveling on the Atlantic City Expressway you could only exit to NJ50 if you were traveling from Philadelphia. If you wanted channel island tours to travel the Expressway east of NJ50 in the direction of Atlantic City you were stiffed. At least you had to drive over 4 miles (7km) out of your way on local roads to reach the nearest interchange with east facing ramps - IC14. As the highway engineers say: "The interchange was missing two movements." But today they did the ribbon cutting on a $8.2m rebuild of the ramps to make it a full 4-movement interchange with all-electronic tolling on the new ramps. The two new ramps are east facing, allow: (1) NJ50 traffic to enter the Expressway and travel eastbound toward Atlantic City Expressway and the coast (2) westbound Expressway traffic from Atlantic City to get off at NJ50 Like many tollroads in the era of cash collection the two movements were very deliberately omitted because they didn't have the minimum traffic volume needed to justify collection costs on the ramps. There's a mainline toll plaza - Egg Harbor toll plaza - just to the west of IC17. That picked up the traffic to and from Philadelphia without the need for ramp toll points. But there was no mainline toll point for a long distance east. With ramps rebuilt there's now 'trumpet' each side of the Expressway to provide on- and off-movements in each direction - all four movements - in place of the west facing ramps of a half diamond. NJ50 which goes over the AC Expressway was widened as part of the project channel island tours to provide acceleration deceleration channel island tours lanes. NJDOT commissioner and chairman of the South Jersey Transportation Authority (SJTA) James Simpson was quoted: "The Exit 17 Interchange project is another implementation example of smart growth; this new full interchange project was well planned and well managed while preserving open space and other environmental resources. The completion channel island tours of this project has made commuting in the area, particularly Route 50, safer for all motorists." Bart Mueller SJTA executive director said the project by providing improved access would have a positive impact on economic development in the area. For motorists from NJ50 to Atlantic City the use of IC17 rather channel island tours than IC14 will reduce travel times from about 20min to about 16min. channel island tours Benefits should include reducing congestion on parallel Black Horse Pike and postponing the need to widen it. The use of trumpet ramp pairs reduced the need to acquire new land and impacts on wetlands. Transponder-only signing but toll-by-plate if without... SJTA calls it "E-ZPass Only" but they won't immediately hit any non-transponder users with a Violation notice. Instead license plate identifications will get a toll-due notice as indicated in the following official channel island tours statement: "WHAT TO EXPECT:
� The South Jersey Transportation Authority channel island tours will issue the non E-ZPass account holder a notice in the mail for the unpaid toll amount. The notice (please channel island tours see attached) includes step-by-step instructions. channel island tours "WHAT TO DO: � The SJTA encourages you to open an E-ZPass account prior to the payment due date on this notice by either calling the Customer Service Center at (973) 368-1425 or visiting the website www.ezpassnj.com. Then, complete Section C of the form and the toll amount due will be applied to your new account. � If you do not wish to open an E-ZPass account, please mail in your payment with the provided Courtesy Reply Envelope in your notice. � Contact the Customer Service Center at (973) 368-1425 to dispute or make payment arrangements. "We hope that you will choose to register for E-ZPass and continue to enjoy the convenience and benefits of Interchange 17 with your new tag and join the millions who keep it moving with E-ZPass." END SJTA INSTRUCTIONS
Idris loops in the pavement act as vehicle detectors, count axles, measure the length of vehicles, track vehicles through channel island tours the toll zone, and hence trigger cameras when there is no counterpart transponder read. The readers are Mark IV Badger readers set up for ORT - similar to those at the Pleasantville toll plaza. Lane controllers are off-the-shelf Dell servers running custom ORT software written by TTI. Cameras from JAI Pulnix are mounted on the gantries to get pictures of front and rear of vehicles. Adjustment of gantry equipment channel island tours requires a lift and lane clsoure, but the volumes of traffic are low enough for this not to be a problem. SJTA is having design work done on gantries for busier locations providing for overhead adjustment and maintenance. Others
Pennsylvania, New York and Illinois have built or are building one-off all-electronic toll interchanges like this. On the Illinois Tollway, for example their new Eola Road AET interchange on the I-88 Reagan Tollway in Aurora channel island tours opened last November. We'll report on some of these in future articles. 2010-06-18 EXTRA 2010-06-20 22:00