A number of indices measure how a resort fares between one year and the next. Among them is transportation. The South Jersey Transportation Authority (SJTA) recently released positive first-quarter figures from the air and from the roadways.
Toll-paying traffic on the Atlantic City Expressway rose 6.5 percent in the first quarter of 2022 over the same period last year. The number of passengers using Atlantic City International Airport jumped 69 percent, according to the SJTA.
“The authority continues on an upward trend in all major categories including toll revenue, toll paying traffic, parking revenue, ridership statistics and passengers at the Atlantic City International Airport,” SJTA Executive Director Stephen F. Dougherty said on April 20.
The increases on the highway came despite a toll hike of almost 40 percent in September 2020, with the pandemic still raging. Since the new tolls were in place during the first quarter of 2021 and 2022, the comparisons were not influenced by the tolls, according to the Press of Atlantic City.
First quarter toll revenue on the expressway increased 8.1 percent to $21.6 million, Dougherty said.
First quarter non-parking revenue at the airport soared to $1.4 million, an increase of 36 percent over first quarter 2021, Dougherty said. Year-to-date parking revenue at the airport leaped 64 percent also at $1.4 million.
