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Mysterious metal towers are popping up at local [NYC] tunnels, and soon they'll start appearing at bridges, too.
But even people on the MTA [Metropolitan Transportation Authority] 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[sic] 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?
[...] [MTA Chairman] Lhota: "The base of these new pieces that are going up include whatever fiber optics are necessary for those Homeland Security items."
Z backscatter arrays?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Friday September 29 2017, @02:41PM
That tracks with a security contract that I was tangentially involved with the bidding on back in 2013 - sniffers to be placed on top of buildings and other places looking for traces of bioweapons, they (said that they) could PCR amplify and identify many common bioweapons from unique DNA sequences. Then, of course, the in-field lab has to communicate threat detections back to the command/control network, using much the same network as video security cameras.
What steered me away from such things was the sort of uniformity of the towers in the New York footage, looked like maybe 16 identical hooded pods with that array of things in each one, but maybe...
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