'Bridgegate' The monitor closest to the bridge shut down at the height of the traffic jams

[kpete]

Talk about disappearing into thin air.

One night before local access lanes to New Jersey's George Washington Bridge were closed last fall in an apparent act of political retribution that sparked miles-long traffic jams for four straight days, an air quality monitor run by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection in Trenton abruptly ceased collecting data.

The closest state-run monitor to the bridge with its data posted online, the monitor started measuring air pollution again more than two days later – just as a key pollution indicator was starting to decline.

"They're missing data for 2 1/2 days – that's weird," says Ann Marie Carlton, an assistant professor at Rutgers University who studies air quality.

"I was really, really shocked when I saw there was no data. You might see a monitor go offline for a day because they're cleaning it or doing maintenance or calibration, but for it go down for this many days is intriguing."

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/01/22/air-monitors-see-spike-in-pollution-during-bridgegate

[MH1]

1. Such a coincidence!!

(not.)

[Cha]

2. They were being soooo sneaky .. I bet they

crapped their collective pants when they had to turn over the incriminating emails.

Thanks to all the intrepid reporters, Rachel, et al who worked on this so diligently without let up.

[truebluegreen]

3. A New Jersey government department monitors the air...

I wonder who ordered that plug to be pulled.

[rocktivity]

4. Oh, what bad luck!

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If that monitor had been working the pollution readings would have gone up high enough to trigger a response that could have culminated in Christie being notified and the lanes being re-opened. Unless...

Unless the shutdown of the air quality monitor was deliberately engineered by those evil, secretive minions of his, and precisely because they KNEW that a high reading would probably result in the lane closures being interrupted. Is there no end to their underhanded chicanery, and their ruthless soiling of poor, innocent Christie's spotless virtue?

Now, cue the DU "Cry Me A River" String Quartet!


rocktivity