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[badboy78660]

Can any NYC Gaffers confirm seeing these things? How the fuck is this nondisclosure even legal?

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/09/27/mysterious-metal-towers/

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – 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.

 

[wandering]

In other words, anti-terror technology. Could that one day include facial recognition? We don't know and Lhota won't say.

 

[LocknessMobster]

Giant vapes for the gods,relax people.

 

[Permanently A]

"We're going to have to raise the fare to cover the costs of installing the towers"

"But what do the towers actually do?"

"Give us a reason to raise the fares"

 

[Fj0823]

 

[BlackGoku03]

It's for Finch's machine. Relax.

 

[ItIsOkBro]

 

[XANDER CAGE]

you can climb them to unlock segments of the map

 

[oneida]

it's part of the marketing campaign for Annihilation

 

[Brian_FETO]

Nice

 

[Hyun Sai]

Aliens already infiltrated the administration preparing their takeover.

It would start in NYC obviously.

 

[Wag]

If you get too close they nuke your genitals.

 

[SolarPowered]

I don't know why, but my mind went right to Cloverfield as I was reading the OP.

Must be the first stages of supersonic wave machines meant to keep the old ones at bay.

 

[BKatastrophe]

It's for Finch's machine. Relax.

Then that means a good Samaritan is on the horizon

 

[fastmower]

My uneducated guess is explosive/Radiation sensors at least.

 

[BlackDoomShadow]

Everybody calm down, they're just building the Citadel in preparation for Trump's inevitable surrender of Earth to the Combine.

 

[Black_Stride]

This is exactly what popped in my mind reading the thread title.

P.S Dont play this game high when these things first pop up....i freaked the fuck out when i realized(rather didnt realize) they follow you.

 

[tekumseh]

you can climb them to unlock segments of the map

And...we have a WINNER!!!

BRAVO!

 

[Currygan]

you can climb them to unlock segments of the map

haha

 

[Laplasakos]

Didn't know that you can play with other characters except 2B. Hope it's not a spoiler because i haven't played the game yet.

 

[Silent Chief]

They are kinda small. How many of them do you get for 100M?

What's the MTA? Metal Tower Administration?

 

[Barrylocke]

They are kinda small. How many of them do you get for 100M?

What's the MTA? Metal Tower Administration?

Metropolitan Transportation Authority, they run the public transportation system in New York City.

 

[Orbis]

Shouldn't they be obliged to tell the public what they're spending $100m on?

 

[Hoo-doo]

I bet they spawn forcefields to lock the populace inside of the city like cattle. And then the combine show up.

 

[Dyle]

Just looks like normal weather balloons monitoring NYC sewer gas, why are you guys all worried?

 

[Kayhan]

It is the mind control CPUs that communicates with your Trump Chip implant.

Or it may be the new chemtrail dispensers. I don't know.