"O Great !", More Troopers For GSP, NJ Turnpike, Look Out.
10-29-2004, 08:54 AM
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"O Great !", More Troopers For GSP, NJ Turnpike, Look Out.
More Troopers For GS Parkway, NJ Turnpike
Oct 29, 2004 11:32 am US/Eastern
Additional state troopers will be assigned to the Garden State Parkway and New Jersey Turnpike beginning Saturday for a crackdown on speeding and other dangerous driving practices.
The Parkway will get eight additional troopers; the Turnpike will get nine. Even more troopers are expected to patrol the toll roads by springtime.
"The really scary thing is recklessness I observe: people on cell phones, out in the left lane, yakking away on someone's bumper," driver Paul Stangas of Metuchen told The Star-Ledger of Newark for Friday's newspapers.
On the Parkway, the extra eight officers will bring the ranks to 178. That's still 23 fewer than what state police officials consider a full force. On the Turnpike, the nine new troopers will bring the total to 193, 32 fewer than the goal.
It's simple math: Fewer troopers equals fewer summonses. For the first nine months of this year, state police on the Turnpike issued 49,086 tickets, compared with 70,942 over the same period in 2002. On the Parkway, troopers this year wrote 41,813 tickets through September, compared with 49,578 in 2002.
Oct 29, 2004 11:32 am US/Eastern
Additional state troopers will be assigned to the Garden State Parkway and New Jersey Turnpike beginning Saturday for a crackdown on speeding and other dangerous driving practices.
The Parkway will get eight additional troopers; the Turnpike will get nine. Even more troopers are expected to patrol the toll roads by springtime.
"The really scary thing is recklessness I observe: people on cell phones, out in the left lane, yakking away on someone's bumper," driver Paul Stangas of Metuchen told The Star-Ledger of Newark for Friday's newspapers.
On the Parkway, the extra eight officers will bring the ranks to 178. That's still 23 fewer than what state police officials consider a full force. On the Turnpike, the nine new troopers will bring the total to 193, 32 fewer than the goal.
It's simple math: Fewer troopers equals fewer summonses. For the first nine months of this year, state police on the Turnpike issued 49,086 tickets, compared with 70,942 over the same period in 2002. On the Parkway, troopers this year wrote 41,813 tickets through September, compared with 49,578 in 2002.
10-29-2004, 09:19 AM
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Cant argue with this > more
really scary thing is recklessness I observe: people on cell phones, out in the left lane, yakking away on someone's bumper," driver Paul Stangas of Metuchen told The Star-Ledger of Newark for Friday's newspapers.
