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3 unusual facts about Garden State Parkway


Gilmore David Clarke

Clarke was also appointed the landscape architect and engineer for the Garden State Parkway.

Jack Boucher

Boucher's first job was photo lab and engraving chief for the Atlantic City Tribune (1949–1951), then at Fred Hess & Son Photographers, Atlantic City, New Jersey (from February 1951 to September 1952), afterwards at NJ Garden State Parkway Chief of Photography (September 1952 to April 1958).

Tri-State Transportation Campaign

TSTC has argued that the planned expansion of the Garden State Parkway between exits 30 and 80 will not provide long-term congestion relief and sued the NJ Department of Environmental Protection in 2009 over its approval of environmental permits for the project.


Forked River, New Jersey

On October 11, 1989, three aides of New York business mogul Donald Trump were killed in a helicopter crash near the Garden State Parkway in Forked River.

New Jersey Route 55

Meanwhile, the portion between Route 47 in Port Elizabeth and the Garden State Parkway in Middle Township was canceled in 1975 due to the impact the highway would have on the surrounding environment.

Stephen Dilts

He was involved in major projects including the consolidation of the Turnpike and Highway Authorities, One-Way Tolling, Express E-ZPass, and planned widening of the Garden State Parkway and the New Jersey Turnpike.


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Alfred E. Driscoll

The Driscoll Bridge on the Garden State Parkway across the Raritan River was named in his honor, and a failed planned extension of the New Jersey Turnpike (similar in nature to the Pennsylvania Turnpike's Northeast Extension) would have also borne his name.