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Air Monitors See Spike in Pollution During 'Bridgegate': The monitor closest to the bridge shut down at the height of the traffic jams
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...(T)he monitor started measuring air pollution again more than two days later – just as a key pollution indicator was starting to decline.
Last fall was not the first time the monitor went down – it stopped transmitting data for several hours on two occasions in June, and it went offline for nearly a week at a time in March and November 2012.
Nevertheless, data collected just as the Jersey monitor came back online...suggest that air pollution reached potentially dangerous levels during at least part of the lane-closure period from Sept. 9 to 12, as thousands of cars, trucks and buses waited for as long as four hours to cross the bridge.
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Just a coincidence, I'm sure. But darn it, 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 evildoing, and their cruel soiling of poor, innocent Christie's spotless virtue? Cue the violins!
