Garden State Parkway Monday: Line Striping Starts at the Bergen Toll Plaza, the Exit 154 Ramp Work Runs Continuous, and Clifton Construction Carries Into the Commute
The Monday item on the 511NJ feed is paint: northbound striping at the Bergen Toll Plaza in Saddle Brook, posted to run Monday through Tuesday. Around it, the weekend's northern Parkway work zones do not pack up for the commute.
Monday's Garden State Parkway story is a striping truck. The 511NJ active-events feed carries a New Jersey Turnpike Authority posting, timed Sunday at 9:46 p.m., for line striping on the northbound Parkway at the Bergen Toll Plaza in Saddle Brook Township, running Monday, November 2 through Tuesday. Fresh paint means a moving work zone in the toll plaza's northbound lanes across both days — the kind of operation that is easy to meet at speed and unforgiving about it.
The rest of the northern Parkway's weekend program carries straight into the commute. Construction holds the northbound lanes between the Connie Chung Service Area in Bloomfield and south of Exit 154 in Clifton, and between north of Exit 135 in Clark and south of Exit 138. The southbound Exit 154 ramp in Clifton is under construction continuously, a posting that began Sunday at 6 a.m. and does not lift for Monday. Steel repairs continue northbound between north of Exit 153A in Clifton and north of Exit 155B in Passaic.
None of the feed's postings carries a clearance time, and this desk claims none. The practical Monday read is geographic: the Parkway's northern third — Saddle Brook, Clifton, Bloomfield, Clark — is a work corridor from the toll plaza south, on the first morning commute of standard time, in the dark an hour earlier than drivers are used to. Slow down through the cone lines, and expect the striping crew to be somewhere in the plaza lanes on both Monday and Tuesday.
