By JOHN CICHOWSKI Anyone who has wasted $4-a-gallon gasoline on Chestnut Ridge Road and scores of other rush-hour time killers in Montvale, Park Ridge and Woodcliff Lake would have cheered over the simple commuter rail solution that was floated Tuesday.

By Joseph A. Gambardello, The Philadelphia Inquirer Feb. 8--Environmentalists, in theory, support higher highway tolls as a way to reduce traffic -- and pollution. But that can depend on how the money is spent.

By TOM DAVIS, STAFF WRITER Governor Corzine's plan to use major toll hikes to restructure New Jersey's finances faces a skeptical Legislature and a dubious public already hampered by rising gas prices and toll increases on the Hudson River crossings.

Police clearing away a vehicle that jumped a guardrail Friday on the Garden State Parkway near the interchange for Route 80 in Saddle Brook. No one was injured in the 2:30 p.m. accident, New Jersey Turnpike Authority officials said. *** (c) 2008 Record, The; Bergen County, N.J..

By JOHN CICHOWSKI Just when we thought commuters couldn't be treated much worse, the New Jersey Turnpike Authority has reset the standard for bureaucratic sensitivity even lower than the bar set by the Three Mean Dons.