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Mystery Surrounds Metal Towers Popping Up In Tunnels and Bridges

posted by Fnord666 on Friday September 29 2017, @02:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the flashback? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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?

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  • (Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Friday September 29 2017, @05:07PM (1 child)

    by Osamabobama (5842) on Friday September 29 2017, @05:07PM (#574925)

    That usage is usually abbreviated "Nabisco."

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  • (Score: 2) by UncleSlacky on Saturday September 30 2017, @02:51PM

    by UncleSlacky (2859) on Saturday September 30 2017, @02:51PM (#575289)

    From http://snltranscripts.jt.org/75/75vstartrek.phtml [jt.org] :

    "That's called a "California license plate", and it's registered, or was in 1968, to a corporation known as "NBC". Wait.. there's something more.. The computer isn't sure, but it thinks this NBC used to manufacture cookies."