It appears there may be a traffic study but there is a reason that Christie will not show it to us
It appears that there was a real traffic study being conducted but that study was not going to interfere with traffic at all, instead it was going to monitor the normal flow of traffic using cameras. Rather than assisting with the study Christie's people actually sabotaged it...
UPDATE X2: There WAS a traffic study, but Wildstein's 'test' actually screwed it up
by databob
Basically, there was a study already scheduled, called the 'Center & Lemoine Traffic Data'. A consultant (Hardesty & Hannover) had been hired to install traffic cameras to study the NORMAL traffic flow in order to plan traffic diversion for a future project called 'Center & Lemoine Avenue Bridge Deck Replacement'.
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In the last e-mail, the engineer complains that, because of Wildstein's 'TL24 test', '... we are getting skewed traffic data in this area.'
It's pretty obvious that Wildstein's 'TL24 test' was not authorized or planned through normal channels - certainly none of the real traffic study people knew anything about it beforehand.
In other documents, it is clear that the first clue that bridge operations people knew about Wildstein's 'TL24 test' was on the afternoon of Friday 9/6/13, conveniently leaving nobody any time to deal with it before Monday morning.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/10/1268754/-UPDATE-X2-There-WAS-a-traffic-study-but-Wildstein-s-test-actually-screwed-it-up
Follow the link to see the e-mails which give details, but it appears the details of this study will make things even worse for Christie.