Drivers using the Garden State Parkway could see the current $1.50 tolls at most toll plazas increase to $1.90 and the average New Jersey Turnpike toll raise by $1.30, according to toll hike details revealed one day before public hearings are scheduled to be held.

The increase could fund a whopping $24 billion capital program, more than three times the size of the 2008-2018 $7 billion capital program.

Toll revenue could fund an ambitious multi-year capital program that would widen 10 sections of the Turnpike and Parkway, totaling $11.65 billion, bring cashless tolling to both toll roads for $900 million and replace the bridge between the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Turnpikes for $500 million, which is the Jersey share of the span.

“That’s a list of long-term capital projects. There will be a rolling five-year capital program drawn from that list,” said Tom Feeney, a Turnpike Authority spokesman.

Turnpike officials said the proposed increase will raise tolls on the Turnpike by 36 percent and by 27 percent on the Parkway. But the details reveal some bigger bites to driver’s wallets.

The average Turnpike trip, which now costs $3.50, will cost $4.80, and the average parkway trip that cost $1.11 would increase by 30 cents, officials said.

But the numbers that mean something to motorists are the prices they could pay at the Parkway’s large “main line toll plazas. All except one plaza charges $1.50. Those would rise to $1.90 for cash or E-ZPass. Exit ramp tolls would increase from 50 to 65 cents.

The real bite on the Parkway comes in the price to drive a car round-trip from Bergen County to the end point in Cape May which would be $19.95 under the increase. A one-way, end-to-end trip would cost $9.45 The current cash rate and E-ZPass for the same 172-mile trip is $8.25.

“The end-to-end (round-trip) Parkway change reflects a 142% increase. Ouch!,” said Steve Carrellas, National Motorist’s Association state chapter Government and Public Affairs director. “Even the biggest disruption (coronavirus) we’ve seen in generations doesn’t stop the Turnpike Authority.”

Driving a passenger car from end to end on the turnpike would cost $18.85 for cash or E-ZPass and $14.15 for off-peak E-ZPass payment. The cash and peak hour E-Z pass rate now for the same 117 mile trip is $13.85 and $10.40 for off-peak E-Z Pass. Future toll increases would be indexed to an indicator officials haven’t determined yet, starting in 2022 and would be limited to 3% annually.

Two groups have called for the hearings to be postponed because of government restrictions on gatherings of more than 50 people to limit spread of the coronavirus. The New Jersey Sierra Club joined an earlier call by the National Motorist’s Association to postpone the hearings.

A hearing scheduled for March 19 in Ramapo was canceled. The other two hearings are Wednesday, March 18 at NJ Turnpike Headquarters, 1 Turnpike Plaza, which is off Mutton Hollow Road and near Route 9 south in Woodbridge, will run from 1 to 3 p.m.

The second is from 6 to 8 p.m. at Camden County College Dennis Flyer Memorial theater, Lincoln Hall Jefferson Drive, Sicklerville. Both will be live streamed on the Turnpike Authority website. A March 27 deadline for email and written comments was extended to April 3.

The NMA called for the hearings and planned April 28 vote to be put off for 45 days to give drivers and other interested groups an opportunity to read the detailed plans and comment. The process started with a Feb. 28 vote by Turnpike Authority commissioners to schedule hearings but not to reveal details of the toll hikes.

Gov. Phil Murphy said his main concern about the hearings was that the 50 person maximum in one room be adhered to, during a Tuesday press briefing.

“We will reiterate that to them,” he said.

Detailed toll rate schedules for the Turnpike and the Parkway and specific information about the capital plan toll increases would fund are on line.

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