The Middletown Veterans Affairs Committee put up two U.S. flags, the maximum number allowed at the moment, over the Garden State Parkway at Red Hill Road.
Opponents of the New Jersey Turnpike Authority’s plans for $24 billion of construction turned the agency’s monthly meeting into an unofficial public hearing.
Activists who oppose spending $16 billion to widen parts of the Parkway and Turnpike are suggesting $36 billion in other ideas – most of it transit projects.