I hate Christie, but I am not sure Christie knew anything about this.....

[karynnj]

138. Unlikely given his lack of response at the time

He was/is a very engaged Governor and that bridge is extremely important. This is the governor who made it a point to tell people to "get off the beach" before an oncoming hurricane.

Northeastern NJ is critically connected to NYC by that bridge and two tunnels. The average wait times via the various accesses are updated often on NYC radio. Slow traffic is a given at rush hours and even at non rush hours, it is not unusual to be in traffic 15 - 20 minutes to go the last 1 or 2 miles.

If this had NOTHING to do with Christie and it was 3 months before the election, I would not have been surprised to see him personally calling on all PA and city people to FIX THE PROBLEM. In addition, why the weak coverup of saying it was a "traffic study". If he believed this, was true - I would have expected him to EXPLODE at the department who did it.

Why? What intelligent person - much less a traffic engineer - decides to answer the question "What would happen if the GWB lost 2 of its FL access roads?" by closing 2 roads for 4 days in a row! First of all, given there is already congestion, the answer is pretty obvious. The second is that you had a very clear answer on day one. The third problem is that the local towns would have been alerted. The fourth problem is that any traffic engineer would know that they could have written a simulation program that modeled what would happen just using the usage information they had.

Instead, over the last 4 months, you had silence and as the issue picked up, derision of those asking questions. Not one word back then of what idiot decided this was a good study. (This is an instance where "idiot" could be defended!) Remember the intense Christie defending his state's need for aid after Sandy? This was a much smaller problem, but it seems he could have cared less. (Not to mention, why did he not care about the bridge on the anniversary of 911 (and Benghazi!).

I know most of this sounds like "the dog not barking" rather than positive proof, but it does seem odd. It is also disturbing that it involved both his GOVERNMENT staff and his CAMPAIGN staff. The rules and the norm is that there is a very high wall between the two for most officials and there should be. Here, especially if Christie was NOT involved and no one not yet fired was, it looks like the campaign manager and the deputy chief of staff started this and the PA appointees followed their direction. At minimum, this working together is inappropriate no matter what they were doing.