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An appointee of Gov. Chris Christie personally showed up to observe the closure of lanes at the George Washington Bridge that triggered an epic traffic jam in New Jersey in September, according to documents made public Friday.
The appointee, David Wildstein, emailed the general manager of the bridge on the day before the lanes were closed to say, Will be at bridge early Monday am to view new lane test, the documents show. Other emails show that he arrived by 7 a.m. on Sept. 9, the first of four days of nightmare traffic in the city of Fort Lee.
The documents also show that Wildstein and Bill Baroni, another Christie appointee, were directly told on the first day that the backups were causing problems for police and paramedics. Lane closures at the bridge continued for four days, until the irate head of the Port Authority, which controls the bridge, ordered them reopened.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/10/22257330-christie-appointee-watched-bridge-closure-in-person-documents-show?lite
madaboutharry
(40,220 posts)Something was going on in Christie's office that was just psycho.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)And they took photos too---as trophies of their crime.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)Skraxx
(2,981 posts)work. Not joking.
okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)controls the bridge, ordered them reopened." Foye threatened legal action and opened the lanes he controlled. That was one of the emails where the Christie staffers were saying he had opened up lanes "on his side" and then one commented something to the effect that they would get even with him for that.
The story makes it seem like Foye could have just opened the bridge on day one and from all I've read that isn't the case. Of course, the bridge is one thing, the road leading up to it is another. They had only one toll booth open and that was on the NJ side.
Blue Owl
(50,498 posts)n/t
sorefeet
(1,241 posts)didn't he watch the news or hear the gossip that the fucking bridge was causing havoc????
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)....records, and face book pages, scrubbed and otherwise, of these guys ASAP.