{"id":115109,"date":"2026-01-28T15:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T15:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/115109\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T15:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T15:08:10","slug":"news-12-new-jersey-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/115109\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey drivers making the daily trip into New York City are paying more this year as rising tolls and other expenses continue to add to the cost of commuting.<\/p>\n<p>News 12\u2019s Amanda Eustice retraced a drive from Edison to midtown Manhattan to show how much more the trip now costs compared with a year ago. She followed the same route, with the same destination and the same car.<\/p>\n<p>The GPS measured the distance the same at about 33 miles, but the added costs came from every part of the drive.<\/p>\n<p>Tolls on both the Garden State Parkway and the New Jersey Turnpike have increased by 3%.<\/p>\n<p>Gas prices are also higher, creating another expense for drivers heading into the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Jersey drivers making the daily trip into New York City are paying more this year as rising&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[748,39638,9,56,63,65,64,31965,17898],"class_list":{"0":"post-115109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-congestion-pricing","9":"tag-fare-increase","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-ny","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nyc-headlines","14":"tag-nyc-news","15":"tag-toll-of-commuting","16":"tag-tolls"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}