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Mystery Surrounds Metal Towers Popping Up In Tunnels & Bridges
cbs ^ | September 27, 2017 6:28 PM | Dave Carlin

Posted on 09/27/2017 9:27:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin

It’s a $100 million MTA project shrouded in secrecy, with 18 of them for tunnels and bridges. So what are they exactly?

The MTA’s man in charge of the bridges and tunnels, Cedrick Fulton, dodged Carlin’s questions Wednesday.

“I said no comment,” he said.

Some MTA board members, including New York City Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg, say they know too little about the towers – even with half the money already spent and some of the towers already up.

“A lot of the board members felt they didn’t have all the details they would have wanted, myself included,” she said.

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“It’s a bit mind-boggling that the MTA is approving $100 million for what appears to us to be big, decorative pylons,” says John Kaehny, the leader of the watchdog group Reinvent Albany. “What we’re asking for is transparency from the MTA.”

CBS2 demanded answers from MTA Chairman Joe Lhota.

Carlin: “Some of your own board members say they don’t know the specifics.”

Lhota: “The base of these new pieces that are going up include whatever fiber optics are necessary for those Homeland Security items.”

In other words, anti-terror technology. Could that one day include facial recognition? We don’t know and Lhota won’t say.

“I’m not at liberty to discuss that,” he told Carlin.

So as more of these expensive towers rise, the mystery is tucked away inside them.

(Excerpt) Read more at newyork.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: US: New York
KEYWORDS: dhs; mystery; towers
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To: BigpapaBo

... or it could be an RF “Kill Switch”. If the authorities want to stop traffic for say a truck bomb threat, those things broadcast and any vehicle passing between gets it’s ignition system fried.


41 posted on 09/28/2017 3:41:52 AM PDT by Tallguy (Twitter short-circuits common sense. Please engage your brain before tweeting.)
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To: Axenolith

That sounds plausible.


42 posted on 09/28/2017 3:44:26 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("We should fear the tyranny of the easily offended." Stossel)
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To: BenLurkin
This one statement gives it away:

“The base of these new pieces that are going up include whatever fiber optics are necessary for those Homeland Security items.”

Homeland Security means anti-terror on the surface; citizen "control" in the background.

Welcome to the book of Revelation. "Alas Babylon", said the Angel...."In one hour thy doom has come."

43 posted on 09/28/2017 3:48:07 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: 21twelve

44 posted on 09/28/2017 3:53:30 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Federal46
How about "A Capital Ship For An Ocean Trip"?

(The Walloping Window Blind)

45 posted on 09/28/2017 4:16:50 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: GingisK
The look more like an electronic toll booth array. It reads your EZ pass and takes a picture of your plate if you don’t have one.
46 posted on 09/28/2017 4:35:45 AM PDT by JP1201
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Daleks


47 posted on 09/28/2017 4:40:46 AM PDT by USCG SimTech
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To: wally_bert

“Can’t be too careful.”


48 posted on 09/28/2017 4:46:08 AM PDT by SargeK
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To: GingisK

No gale that blew dismayed her crew or troubled the captain’s mind.


49 posted on 09/28/2017 5:09:45 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: SargeK

Especially in G section.


50 posted on 09/28/2017 5:14:11 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: eddie willers
The next one was "Purple People Eater".

Soon followed by The Eggplant that ate Chicago.

51 posted on 09/28/2017 5:46:39 AM PDT by Dustoff45 (Pass the spicy catsup. We've got Trump now.)
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To: Paladin2
Though it was nice that his wife passed him sandwiches...

... but couldn't give him a token?

52 posted on 09/28/2017 7:51:01 AM PDT by zeugma (I live in the present due to the constraints of the Space-Time Continuum. —Hank Green)
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To: Alas Babylon!
Homeland Security means anti-terror on the surface; citizen "control" in the background.

Bingo. The "anti-terrorism" window dressing is to lull you into a false sense of security, while they watch and record every move we make.

53 posted on 09/28/2017 7:56:03 AM PDT by zeugma (I live in the present due to the constraints of the Space-Time Continuum. —Hank Green)
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To: Tallguy
"... or it could be an RF “Kill Switch”."

"Kill Switch"...currently on Prime Video...


54 posted on 09/28/2017 9:06:15 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

His wife finally realized that she could just hand him some money with that sandwich, but it turned out he was using the whole MTA conspiracy theory as an excuse to carry on with various female passengers.

That part of the story, sandwich but no money, eventually helped inspire the premise of Gilligan’s Island.

Charlie’s wife divorced him, married into the Fitzgerald family. Charlie ran for senate, and won.


55 posted on 09/28/2017 10:05:45 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: bitt; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ..

It’s probably to keep the tunnels from being bombed. The whole thing was going to be financed by the payoff money rec’d from the terrorist groups overseas — that is, until Hillary lost the election.


56 posted on 09/28/2017 10:07:13 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Federal46
Well then! you probably had “The Ballad of Davy Crockett” as well?

You bet!

And "The Ballad of Casey Jones".

57 posted on 09/28/2017 10:29:49 AM PDT by eddie willers
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To: JP1201

If it were just that then why all the silence from MTA?


58 posted on 09/28/2017 11:42:51 AM PDT by Tallguy (Twitter short-circuits common sense. Please engage your brain before tweeting.)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin
Wow! I'm impressed! Maybe you and I are the only two in the world that remember that song. Maybe even among the very few that heard it.

I think it is Australian. My brothers and I had a record player when we were itty-bitty in 1954 or so. I was five years old. That record was one of our favorites.

It is weird that I can still recite most of that song.

59 posted on 09/28/2017 5:54:03 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: GingisK

I never heard it as a song, just read the poem when I was a kid. Can’t remember more than the first few lines, though.

I suppose it’s online somewhere. Who knows, maybe the song’s even on Youtube.


60 posted on 09/28/2017 6:38:44 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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