Originally Posted by
dmurphynj
No, we just don't want you to discover that we have trees and farms and wildlife and rolling hills and beaches and all that.
Hence why we built Newark so close to NYC -- the greatest subterfuge ever.... try to make you think the entire state looks like that ;-)
We are fixing all our stuff with the Garden State Tax, or GST. We pretend its a congestion tax because we dont want people to think we are rude.
I fly every INTL out of EWR and use NJT to get there either from Brooklyn or the beach place on LI. Ive never missed yet, leaving a travel time plus one hour to airport