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On the way to the Jersey Shore, drivers are shelling out a bit more to pay the tolls on three major roads in the Garden State.

“Obviously not happy about it,” Charles Rogers, of New Milford, New Jersey, told NBC10.

The state of the new year brought a 3% toll hike to the Garden State Parkway as well as the New Jersey Turnpike and the Atlantic City Expressway.

“It was a surprise,” Nova Scotia resident Donelda Dubois explained.

At several of the toll plazas on the Parkway, the standard cash price is up one dime to $2.30. Drivers who use E-ZPass still get a discount.

“They just keep going up. It’s not fair. Everything is going up, you know and the salaries is not going up. So just makes it hard for everyone,” Roselle resident Shawn Holmes said.

This is the fourth straight year of a 3% toll increase on the Parkway and Turnpike. The …

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