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These metal towers or tall pedestals, outwardly reminiscent of repeaters are currently installed by all over New York: in tunnels, at subway stations, at crossings, bridges and many other places.
Moreover, city officials and even Metropolitan employees Transportation Authority (AIT), who themselves establish these mysterious structures cannot answer a simple question Journalists: what is it and why is it being built?
Here’s what, for example, the New York Transport Commissioner said Polly Trottenberg:
We only have money in the amount of one hundred million dollars allocated for the construction of these towers (by the way, half of we have already realized this amount). But at the same time no one – neither I nor others members of the board of directors, does not have complete information regarding of these mysterious structures, and therefore nothing concrete to say I can.
Another MTA official, one Cedric Fulton, refused at all talking with reporters on this topic, apparently, not everything in it transparent and legal, but his colleague Jose Lugo still admitted that they do not even imagine why all this is necessary.
Since the towers are being built in front of millions of citizens, and these structures do not look like decorations at all, CBS2 journalists with questions about this made their way to MTA chairman Joe Lhota, who briefly explained that all this is done for national security of the country in the fight against terrorism. The official refused to say more than this, explaining that he doesn’t have then right.
As the US government fights terrorists, New Yorkers remember since September 2001, so the explanation of Joe Lhota them not very convinced and certainly not happy. And the scary towers that every day the townspeople seem more mysterious and therefore all worse, they remain a mystery behind seven seals …
