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Mystery Surrounds Metal Towers Popping Up In Tunnels & Bridges
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| 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.
...
“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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posted on
09/27/2017 9:27:14 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
It's where they buried Charlie.
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posted on
09/27/2017 9:29:09 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
To: dp0622
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posted on
09/27/2017 9:29:25 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
It's where they buried Charlie.I got that. First record my mama ever bought me.
The next one was "Purple People Eater".
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
LOL, we’ll have to use Clinton masks as Charlie was born too early...
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posted on
09/27/2017 9:31:07 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
To: BenLurkin
Damage one - and see who shows up to arrest you.
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posted on
09/27/2017 9:31:13 PM PDT
by
PGR88
To: Paladin2
Though it was nice that his wife passed him sandwiches...
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posted on
09/27/2017 9:32:08 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
To: BenLurkin
Let me guess, things being constructed to make it look like construction is going on in the interest of union cash and money laundering.
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
He’s the man who never returned
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posted on
09/27/2017 9:36:37 PM PDT
by
Pelham
(Liberate California. Deport Mexico Now)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear; All
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posted on
09/27/2017 9:37:32 PM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: JennysCool
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Who’s Charlie?
I thought it was where they buried Jimmy.
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posted on
09/27/2017 9:38:02 PM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: BenLurkin
Missile defense system network?
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posted on
09/27/2017 9:40:52 PM PDT
by
CivilWarBrewing
(Feminism DESTROYED females)
To: BenLurkin
With out pictures, this story is not very informative.
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posted on
09/27/2017 9:42:00 PM PDT
by
VietVet
To: BenLurkin
They’ll probably electronically disable everything in radius X...
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posted on
09/27/2017 9:46:54 PM PDT
by
Axenolith
(Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
To: Beowulf9
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posted on
09/27/2017 9:49:27 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
To: Beowulf9
He was the man who never returned and his fate is still unlearned. :)
(See post ten for a fuller explanation)
As for Jimmy I always figured he ended up in the Detroit River.
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posted on
09/27/2017 9:50:27 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
To: Fiddlstix
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posted on
09/27/2017 9:50:45 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Fiddlstix
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posted on
09/27/2017 9:50:46 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: PGR88
Good idea!
Perturb the system to see the response. You must be a systems engineer!
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posted on
09/27/2017 9:50:55 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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