Drivers who used a backstreet at the Garden State Parkway’s Connie Chung service area to avoid a toll or get a meal have hit the end of the road.

The surreptitious route between the service center and a Bloomfield neighborhood is officially off limits to drivers using it as a way to beat the southbound Parkway toll, officials said.

The change was first reported by Fox 5 news , which said the driveway off Broad Street was used by residents to go to the service area for a snack, but it was also discovered by drivers looking to beat the toll instead of getting off at the next exit.

That driveway behind the service area had been closed off by a gate to prevent cars from exiting onto Broad Street in Bloomfield until Aug. 17, 2022, Tom Feeney, a spokesman for the New Jersey Turnpike Authori

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