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Homeland Security is involved in this project, so these metal towers could be multi-purpose? Even the MTA board in charge of the towers are mainly clueless in their purpose and use?
Mystery Surrounds Metal Towers Popping Up In Tunnels & Bridges September 27, 2017 (Video)
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/09/27/mysterious-metal-towers/
Mysterious metal towers are popping up at local tunnels, and soon they’ll start appearing at bridges, too.
But even people on the MTA board in charge of the towers can’t say why they’re being used or what’s in them, CBS2’s Dave Carlin reports.
Jose Lugo said the tall metal towers quickly appeared up after the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel tolls booths came down.
“We don’t really know what’s the purpose of this,” he told Carlin.
It’s a $100 million MTA project shrouded in secrecy, with 18 of them for tunnels and bridges. So what are they exactly?
The MTA’s man in charge of the bridges and tunnels, Cedrick Fulton, dodged Carlin’s questions Wednesday.
“I said no comment,” he said.
Some MTA board members, including New York City Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg, say they know too little about the towers – even with half the money already spent and some of the towers already up.
“A lot of the board members felt they didn’t have all the details they would have wanted, myself included,” she said.
Residents suspect there is much more going on in the towers than meets the eye and wonder if they’ll ever really know what’s going on inside of them.
“I’m going to guess that it’s not just a decoration,” Alyssa Renkas, of the Upper West Side, said.
“It’s a bit mind-boggling that the MTA is approving $100 million for what appears to us to be big, decorative pylons,” says John Kaehny, the leader of the watchdog group Reinvent Albany. “What we’re asking for is transparency from the MTA.”
CBS2 demanded answers from MTA Chairman Joe Lhota.
Carlin: “Some of your own board members say they don’t know the specifics.”
Lhota: “The base of these new pieces that are going up include whatever fiber optics are necessary for those Homeland Security items.”
In other words, anti-terror technology. Could that one day include facial recognition? We don’t know and Lhota won’t say.
“I’m not at liberty to discuss that,” he told Carlin.
So as more of these expensive towers rise, the mystery is tucked away inside them.
Lhota said all necessary Homeland Security technology remains in place at all crossings, even the ones that don’t have the new towers yet.
NYPD cars get fitted with Advanced Spectroscopic Portal Monitors (a.k.a., radiation detectors) Thursday, July 2, 2009
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nypd-cars-fitted-advanced-spectroscopic-portal-monitors-radiation-detectors-article-1.425878
The Advanced Spectroscopic Portal Monitors, $450,000 devices given to the NYPD by the Department of Homeland Security, will be placed in a trio of SUVs on Wednesday at entrances to tunnels, bridges and toll booths, police sources said.
The detectors had been purchased by DHS' National Nuclear Detection Office for use at the nation's ports, but officials concluded they weren't strong enough to penetrate ship containers, sources said.
The devices were then given to the NYPD for free. Officials believe they will be able to detect radioactive isotopes emanating from a dirty bomb in the back of a car.
"We think they'll be useful getting hits on vehicles on the road," said a source.
The new devices join the NYPD's arsenal of radiation detectors stationed at the Coney Island counterterrorism center.
The department also recently purchased 8,000 Dosimeters, pager-sized detectors to be given to police if there is a nuclear attack, sources said. Outfitted in protective gear, officers would use the Dosimeters to find "hot spots" of radiation.
Additionally, sources said the NYPD will station a sophisticated radiation-detecting device at this weekend's July 4 celebration at the retired battleship Intrepid.
The Thermo-Fissure Portal Monitor - which costs $100,000 - is used up to a dozen times a year and is stationed at the main entrance to a sensitive target, sources said. It has previously been used at the U.S. Open Tennis tournament, the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square, and at meetings of the United Nations General Assembly.
Mystery Surrounds Metal Towers Popping Up In Tunnels & Bridges September 27, 2017 (Video)
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/09/27/mysterious-metal-towers/
Mysterious metal towers are popping up at local tunnels, and soon they’ll start appearing at bridges, too.
But even people on the MTA board in charge of the towers can’t say why they’re being used or what’s in them, CBS2’s Dave Carlin reports.
Jose Lugo said the tall metal towers quickly appeared up after the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel tolls booths came down.
“We don’t really know what’s the purpose of this,” he told Carlin.
It’s a $100 million MTA project shrouded in secrecy, with 18 of them for tunnels and bridges. So what are they exactly?
The MTA’s man in charge of the bridges and tunnels, Cedrick Fulton, dodged Carlin’s questions Wednesday.
“I said no comment,” he said.
Some MTA board members, including New York City Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg, say they know too little about the towers – even with half the money already spent and some of the towers already up.
“A lot of the board members felt they didn’t have all the details they would have wanted, myself included,” she said.
Residents suspect there is much more going on in the towers than meets the eye and wonder if they’ll ever really know what’s going on inside of them.
“I’m going to guess that it’s not just a decoration,” Alyssa Renkas, of the Upper West Side, said.
“It’s a bit mind-boggling that the MTA is approving $100 million for what appears to us to be big, decorative pylons,” says John Kaehny, the leader of the watchdog group Reinvent Albany. “What we’re asking for is transparency from the MTA.”
CBS2 demanded answers from MTA Chairman Joe Lhota.
Carlin: “Some of your own board members say they don’t know the specifics.”
Lhota: “The base of these new pieces that are going up include whatever fiber optics are necessary for those Homeland Security items.”
In other words, anti-terror technology. Could that one day include facial recognition? We don’t know and Lhota won’t say.
“I’m not at liberty to discuss that,” he told Carlin.
So as more of these expensive towers rise, the mystery is tucked away inside them.
Lhota said all necessary Homeland Security technology remains in place at all crossings, even the ones that don’t have the new towers yet.
NYPD cars get fitted with Advanced Spectroscopic Portal Monitors (a.k.a., radiation detectors) Thursday, July 2, 2009
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nypd-cars-fitted-advanced-spectroscopic-portal-monitors-radiation-detectors-article-1.425878
The Advanced Spectroscopic Portal Monitors, $450,000 devices given to the NYPD by the Department of Homeland Security, will be placed in a trio of SUVs on Wednesday at entrances to tunnels, bridges and toll booths, police sources said.
The detectors had been purchased by DHS' National Nuclear Detection Office for use at the nation's ports, but officials concluded they weren't strong enough to penetrate ship containers, sources said.
The devices were then given to the NYPD for free. Officials believe they will be able to detect radioactive isotopes emanating from a dirty bomb in the back of a car.
"We think they'll be useful getting hits on vehicles on the road," said a source.
The new devices join the NYPD's arsenal of radiation detectors stationed at the Coney Island counterterrorism center.
The department also recently purchased 8,000 Dosimeters, pager-sized detectors to be given to police if there is a nuclear attack, sources said. Outfitted in protective gear, officers would use the Dosimeters to find "hot spots" of radiation.
Additionally, sources said the NYPD will station a sophisticated radiation-detecting device at this weekend's July 4 celebration at the retired battleship Intrepid.
The Thermo-Fissure Portal Monitor - which costs $100,000 - is used up to a dozen times a year and is stationed at the main entrance to a sensitive target, sources said. It has previously been used at the U.S. Open Tennis tournament, the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square, and at meetings of the United Nations General Assembly.
