NJ Turnpike

Now that the summer season has come to an end, it’s going to cost you more to go to the Jersey Shore and other spots using New Jersey’s major toll roads. Starting Sunday, tolls are going up on the Atlantic City Expressway, Garden State Parkway and New Jersey Turnpike.

A fuel tanker fire on the Western Spur of the NJ Turnpike Monday morning created such intense, thick black smoke that it blew across the Hudson River and over western Manhattan. Chopper 4 was over the scene at the northbound off-ramp to Route 3 just before 6:45 a.m. Smoke from the burning, overturned tanker rose to at least 1,600 feet,…

Smoke from the fire on the Western Spur could be seen miles away.

Smoke from the fire on the Western Spur could be seen miles away.

Tolls will go up on New Jersey’s three major toll roads in September

“Structurally deficient and functionally obsolete” — never words you want to hear about a bridge that carries more than 150,000 cars a day on an artery crucial to transit in and out of America’s biggest city.

A truck was ablaze on the New Jersey Turnpike on Sunday evening, sending black smoke across the sky.

A coach bus carrying dozens of passengers from Washington D.C. to New Jersey crashed into an overpass at Newark Penn Station, sending dozens of riders to the hospital, officials say.

A coach bus carrying dozens of passengers from D.C. to New Jersey crashed into an overpass at Newark Penn Station. Marc Santia reports.

A school bus with approximately 42 children and adults onboard flipped onto its side on the NJ Turnpike in East Brunswick, but there were no fatalities or serious injuries, police said. Brian Thompson reports.

Emily West has your alternative routes for avoiding the construction during the I-495 restoration project.

A school bus with dozens of children on board overturned on the New Jersey Turnpike near the Goethals Bridge.

A school bus with dozens of children on board overturned on the New Jersey Turnpike near the Goethals Bridge, injuring at least five. Ken Buffa reports.

Part of the Newark Bay Extension Bridge of the New Jersey Turnpike that was closed for emergency construction after a section of the deck dropped “several inches” has reopened, authorities say.

Part of the Newark Bay Extension Bridge of the New Jersey Turnpike has closed for emergency construction after a section of the deck dropped “several inches.” Tracie Strahan reports.

An overturned tractor-trailer truck is blocking five lanes of traffic on the New Jersey Turnpike, officials say.

Chopper 4 was over an overturned tractor-trailer at the NJ Turnpike.

A tanker truck carrying liquid asphalt overturned and caught fire in the northbound lanes of the New Jersey Turnpike in Burlington County Sunday afternoon causing a traffic nightmare.

Rough commutes will turn into major headaches in a few weeks as urgent repairs begin at New York Penn Station, a two-month overhaul that officials have dubbed a “summer of hell.” Some New Jersey towns are already lining up plans to help NJ Transit riders, but one commuter isn’t waiting to find an alternative.

The raging inferno that devoured three public school buses in a New Jersey lot in the middle of the night last week has been ruled accidental.