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NJT and GSP tolls increasing on New Year's Day
Tolls on the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway are going up, and for some drivers, that could mean a difference of several hundred dollars next year.
Commuters Eyewitness News talked to really feel like they're getting squeezed.
Tolls are going up on the Turnpike and the Parkway, and they recently went up at the Hudson River crossings.Even NJ Transit bus and train fares are up!
"It's disgusting, they're not offering anything and they're just taking more money," said Jeff Tanner, a driver.
More money is right, tolls on the NJ Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway will go up by as much as 50% in 2012.
"The gas goes up and the tolls go up and it's just more and more," said Janet Wojtowicz, a driver.
The toll hikes were approved in 2008 as a two-step process.
"I don't like it but its part of life and the condition on the roads demands that they improve them," said Paul Mitchell, a driver.
To illustrate how much a cash paying driver at peak hours would pay, imagine driving from Exit 4 on the NJ Turnpike North to exit 14C and then taking the Holland Tunnel into Lower Manhattan.
In January 2011, tolls for the trip would cost you $14.70. In 2012, it'll cost you $22.25, that's more than a 50%increase. And that's before you pay for gas!
"I'm going to think twice before driving here again. I'm not going to drive here again, next time I'll fly," said Omar Ali, a driver.
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Sunday, May 22, 2011
History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
A History of Christianity, a six-part series presented by Diarmaid MacCulloch, an Oxford history professor whose books about Cranmer and the Reformation have been acclaimed as masterpieces. A History Of Christianity will reveal the true origins of Christianity and delve into what it means to be a Christian. Intelligent, thought-provoking and magisterial in its scope the series will uncover how a small Jewish sect that preached humility became the biggest religion in the world. Most Christian histories start with St Paul's mission to Rome, but Diarmaid MacCulloch argues that the first Christianity stayed much closer to its Middle-Eastern roots. He describes not only the main ideas and personalities of Christian history, its organization and spirituality, but how it has changed politics, sex, and human society. The series includes subjects from Palestine in the first century to India in the third, from Damascus to China in the seventh century and from San Francisco to Korea in the twentieth. MacCulloch is one of the most widely travelled of Christian historians and conveys a sense of place as arrestingly as he does the power of ideas. He presents the development of Christian history differently from any of his predecessors. He shows how, after a semblance of unity in its earliest centuries, the Christian church divided during the next 1400 years into three increasingly distanced parts, of which the western Church was by no means always the most important: he observes that at the end of the first eight centuries of Christian history, Baghdad might have seemed a more likely capital for worldwide Christianity than Rome. This is the first truly global history of Christianity. Diarmaid MacCulloch is one of the world's leading historians and Professor of History of the Church and Fellow at St. Cross College Oxford. The series is a BBC co-production with the Open University and Jerusalem Productions. Giftbox set of 6 one hour DVDs Features:
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Programs in the series: Program 1: The First Christianity Program 2: Catholicism: The Unpredictable Rise of Rome Program 3: Orthodoxy: From Empire to Empire Program 4: Reformation: The Individual Before God Program 5: Protestantism: The Evangelical Explosion Program 6: God in Dock
Price: $79.99