The total cost to travel the length of the Atlantic City Expressway for passenger vehicles is currently $5.90.

A westbound exit provides a connection to County House Road (CR 705) and northbound Route 168.

It meets Route 73 at another partial interchange, with a westbound exit and an eastbound entrance, where the roadway widens to six lanes.

[2] Named for New Jersey State Senator Frank S. Farley and run by Applegreen, it has a building containing multiple fast-food restaurants, a Sunoco gas station, a mini-mart and gift shop with New Jersey Lottery sales, a seasonal farm market, an ATM, tourist information, and an electric vehicle charging station.

It then features a partial cloverleaf interchange with Route 50, with the westbound exit and eastbound entrance being E-ZPass only.

[1][4][5] It meets Leipzig Avenue (CR 670), with another partial interchange featuring an eastbound off-ramp and a westbound on-ramp.

[6] Next, it has an eastbound exit and westbound entrance for Wrangleboro Road (CR 575), which provides access to Black Horse Pike (US 40/US 322) and the Hamilton Mall near Mays Landing.

It passes under Main Street (CR 585) and features a partial interchange with Franklin Boulevard, with a westbound exit and eastbound entrance.

Past the toll plaza, the travel lanes separate and a park and ride lot, used by Atlantic City casino employees, lies within the median of the expressway.

Upon entering Atlantic City, the expressway passes under the Southern Railroad of New Jersey's Pleasantville Industrial Track line and features an eastbound exit and westbound entrance with US 40/US 322.

[13] Every year since 2013, with the exception of 2020 and 2021, eastbound tolls are waived at the Egg Harbor Toll Plaza for one hour in the late afternoon on the Friday before Memorial Day to promote the unofficial beginning of the summer tourist season at the Jersey Shore.

Chickie's & Pete's, a local sports bar chain, pays for the tolls collected during this hour.

[17] The road was planned as a parkway in 1932, running from the Ben Franklin Bridge in Camden southeast to Atlantic City, but it never materialized.

[18] The idea for a limited-access road between the Philadelphia area and Atlantic City resurfaced in the 1950s when South Jersey officials, led by State Senator Frank S. Farley, pushed for an expressway between the two areas to help the economy of Southern New Jersey.

However, the opening of the expressway did not initially increase tourism to Atlantic City, and toll projections were below expectations.

The opening of the Atlantic City Expressway, along with the connecting Garden State Parkway, provided a shorter route to Jersey Shore resort towns in Cape May County and Long Beach Island; travel times to Cape May County were reduced by 30 to 45 minutes.

The construction of the expressway also led to development near the interchange serving Mays Landing, including the Hamilton Mall.

The welcome center offered amenities including tourist information, T-shirts, restrooms, and E-ZPass sales.

[4] In 2007, it was announced that the Atlantic City Expressway from milepost 7.0–31.0 would be widened in the westbound direction to accommodate a third lane from north of the Garden State Parkway to Route 73. exit 17 (Route 50) would be reconstructed to form a full movement interchange (completed June 18, 2010), and the Egg Harbor Toll Plaza would receive Express E-ZPass lanes to allow traffic to maintain highway speed.

The first phase widened the road from the Garden State Parkway to the Egg Harbor Toll Plaza.

Another project involves the installation of an overpass at the end of Amelia Earhart Boulevard next to the entrance to the FAA Tech Center.

The proposed roadway would intrude upon a small section of a mobile home park and land owned by Egg Harbor Township.

[42] The 2019 Statewide Transportation Improvement Plan included a project that would add a flyover ramp from the Garden State Parkway northbound to the Atlantic City Expressway westbound.

[43] In April 2020, as part of a plan to raise tolls by 37% on the Atlantic City Expressway, the South Jersey Transportation Authority announced a $150 million plan to widen the expressway to three lanes in each direction from exit 31 to the western terminus with Route 42.

[45] The widening of the Atlantic City Expressway to six lanes between exit 31 and the western terminus, which will build new bridges and reconstruct the interchange with Route 42, is expected to begin in 2024 with completion in 2025.