The exact change lanes and coin baskets at the Garden State Parkway's main toll booths will soon go the way of the token.

After years of mulling the change, the baskets will be replaced with full service or E-ZPass-only lanes in the main Parkway toll plazas beginning this month, the New Jersey Turnpike Authority announced Wednesday.

The Parkway's 23 entry and exit ramps will remain untouched.

The coin machines are being removed from all mainline toll plazas this fall but will remain on entry and exit ramps. More info here: https://t.co/Q5nfJRh0da — Garden State Parkway (@GSParkway) September 12, 2018

The 37 machines will begin being removed "on or about" Sept. 24, at Pascack Valley and Cape May toll plazas, and the others will all be changed in about six weeks. Two crews working from north to south, and vice versa, will convert two toll plazas a week.

The work will be done during the day and will cause the "temporary, short-term closure" of some lanes and will not cause "significant travel disruptions," officials said.

The coin machines are "nearing the end of their useful lives" and "have become expensive and difficult to maintain," the authority stated. Parts from the machines will be used to replace or repair the ones on the entry and exit ramps.

Nearly 83 percent of people who traveled through the toll plazas used the E-ZPass lanes in 2017, the agency said. Just under 5 percent used the coin lanes.

The New Jersey Turnpike Authority has placed a Q&A about the change on its website.

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