# ‘What's to Love About the New Jersey Turnpike? Everything.’ **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [July 10, 2025, 6:41pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-to-love-about-the-new-jersey-turnpike-everything/200954 "2025-07-10T18:41:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 6:41pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-to-love-about-the-new-jersey-turnpike-everything/200954/1 "2025-07-10T18:41:30Z")
> **[What’s to Love About the New Jersey Turnpike? Everything.](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/magazine/new-jersey-turnpike.html)** > > Get on this highway and take a drive straight into science fiction. [https://archive.is/WwFgT](https://archive.is/WwFgT) for those without a subscription. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-to-love-about-the-new-jersey-turnpike-everything/200954/2 "2025-07-10T18:58:52Z")
The only thing I remember is Howard Johnson’s motels and people hard to understand with their accent. Oh yeah and those orange hoofs at gulf or some station. Maybe the wrong state but east anyway. ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 7:09pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-to-love-about-the-new-jersey-turnpike-everything/200954/3 "2025-07-10T19:09:33Z")
> [@bing](#): > > those orange hoofs at gulf Way back when, all of the restaurants on the NJTPK were operated by Howard Johnson’s. Of course, they’ve been gone for a very long time. When I worked on the NJTPK, the gas/service facilities were run by Cities Service (later, Citgo), but they’ve been operated by Sunoco for quite a few years. Yes, Gulf used self-adhesive plastic orange hoofs to promote their No-Nox gas. ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/2/b/2b1f3fc2ff343d737ca6a1edd6531d98c6e37c22.jpeg) This was a few years after Esso used their Tiger Tails to promote their premium gas. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 9:32pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-to-love-about-the-new-jersey-turnpike-everything/200954/4 "2025-07-10T21:32:26Z")
Not to single any part of the country out for accents but I was at the Yellowstone gift shop trying to buy some film but I had a hard time understanding her accent. I guess I was ten or twelve at the time so hadn’t been exposed much to the world. ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 9:38pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-to-love-about-the-new-jersey-turnpike-everything/200954/5 "2025-07-10T21:38:32Z")
> [@bing](#): > > people hard to understand with their accent. Probably said the same about you. 😊 ---
**Author:** ![cigroller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c68b51/32.png) [@cigroller](https://community.cartalk.com/u/cigroller)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2025, 5:13am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-to-love-about-the-new-jersey-turnpike-everything/200954/6 "2025-07-11T05:13:13Z")
I always liked counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike. ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Eo2ZsAOlvEM&ab\_channel=SimonGarfunkelVEVO](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Eo2ZsAOlvEM&ab_channel=SimonGarfunkelVEVO)) You know. As I sat in stupid driver created traffic. ---
**Author:** ![timewhite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@timewhite](https://community.cartalk.com/u/timewhite)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2025, 3:32am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-to-love-about-the-new-jersey-turnpike-everything/200954/7 "2025-07-14T03:32:06Z")
That’s normal. 😁