Turnpike Executive Director Ed Gross predicted that "ten years from now, we will be celebrating value pricing" and "will recognize that it will overshadow electronic tolls." He said, "We are charged with with creatively managing the transportation system to efficiently move people and goods through and around the state. It is virtually impossible to build new highways and very difficult to add lanes." He noted that despite the Turnpike's volume, it is now underutilized in the off-peak period and promised to publicly report on the effects of the new toll program as soon as possible.

Besting even Gross' favorable comments, Ron Shiftan, Port Authority deputy executive director, said:

"The early members (of the E-ZPass family) including the Port Authority have pussy-footed around in the challenge to obtain increased productivity from our transportation infrastructure. The Turnpike Authority has taken a major step forward in giving us value pricing and it can only lead to great things in the future. I call on all the agencies in the region to convene and try to develop a regional approach to implementing strategies to reduce traffic and increase productivity well beyond the strategies implemented this week."

Returning to the podium, Ed Gross responded, "I certainly second Ron's suggestion. Value pricing will only be better if it is done regionally." NJ Assembly member and transportation chairman Alex DeCroce, also called the value pricing program a "model."

The ceremony also marked the NJ Highway Authority's completion of EZPass on the Garden State Parkway. NJDOT, Delaware DOT and various toll road authority commissioners, legislators and members of the 16-member Regional Consortium were on hand.