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September 9-13 of last year when ft. lees traffic was deliberately ground to a halt. to return to the root of the scandal, to understand what was going on in real time and to identify all of the questions this chain of events raises. and there might still be more shoes to drop, 20 subpoenas were issued by the legislatives new joint investigative committee. theyre due back starting tomorrow but were about to show you from the most extensive public record that currently exists. as you no doubt hav...

A text hes received from ft. lee mayor mark sokolich about those four lanes merging into only one toll booth. writes the bigger problem is getting kids to school. help me, please. its maddening. wildstein forwards it to someone else who wonders, is it wrong that i am smiling? wildstein replies, no. when the other person says back, i feel badly about the kids, i guess. wildstein writes, they are the children of blono voters, the person challenging christie for governor. saturday, september 12, da...

966 vehicle driver time. those using the ft. lee time lost an estimated 2,800 vehicle hours of delay. that is the equivalent of 117 days of time spent snarled in traffic. second major thing to happen on september 12 is ft. lee mayor mark sokolich writing a very pointed letter to bill baroni. he writes only to baroni, not to anyone else, and says he hopes that the lane closure will be, quote, reversed quietly, uneventfully, and without political fanfare. i have incessantly attempted to contact po...

Predictably slow and jammed. the initial reaction from the locals was swift. matthew bell e-mails baroni that ft. lee mayor mark sokolich is calling about, quote, an urgent matter of public safety in ft. lee. baroni forwards that e-mail to wildstein who replies simply, radio silence. 11:24 a.m., port authority staffer tina latto e-mails that a ft. lee council administrator is calling to say police are having problems responding to calls including one about a missing child. and that ambulances ca...

The three access lanes. by august 28, a week later, wildstein has requested the chief traffic engineer rivera has prepared a mock-up of three different traffic scenarios including cutting down ft. lees lanes from three to two. chief engineer peter zip forwards it to wildstein noting it could be to merge down to only one lane. thats, quote, if needed. and friday, september 6, according to testimony from both durando and fulton, the director of the bridges, tunnels, and terminals department, wilds...

Is that i still only see dots. i dont see a picture. it doesnt look like a picture yet. there are lots of dots but theyre not connected for me yet. im with you. your original position, the s simplest answer is very often the real answer. and it could just be a rogue operation. it could be a whole lot of things. we dont know. everyone at the table keeps asking what? we dont know what happened. >> we did a thing on the show a few weeks ago, and i tried very hard to say this is not a theory. i know...

Studies dont just happen. studies are in the planning stages for fave yeaive years be theyre implemented. this was ad hoc. the port authority doesnt do things ad hoc. >> this was not a tradition al traffic study. >> not at all. >> we say there were tensions between the two sides. everything you see in the testimony, everything you see in the e-mails about keep the new york side out of this completely, keep ft. lee out of this completely. >> you have to understand the level of, how shall we say, ...

Something else that jumped out at me in some of these documents is that one of the bridge officials, i forgot who it was that testified, he had several interactions with wildstein, and he said multiple times in those few years wildstein had brought up, had raised the issue of what he called the ft. lee only lanes. now we know thats a misnomer. this is not just ft. lee traffic. this is not a special deal for ft. lee. this is a vital way of getting across the bridge for people who live -- the loca...

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