N.J. Stat. § 27:23-1
In order to facilitate vehicular traffic and remove the present handicaps and hazards on the congested highways in the State, and to provide for the acquisition and construction of modern express highways embodying every known safety device including center divisions, ample shoulder widths, long sight distances, multiple lanes in each direction and grade separations at all intersections with other highways and railroads, and for the purposes enumerated in section 1 of P.L. 2003, c. 79(C.27:23-41), the New Jersey Turnpike Authority is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire, construct, maintain, improve, manage, repair and operate transportation projects (as hereinafter defined) or any part thereof at such locations as shall be established by the authority in its discretion or by law, and to issue transportation revenue bonds of the Authority, payable from tolls, other revenues, proceeds of bonds and other available sources to finance such projects.
N.J.S. § 27:23-1