Sentences with phrase «access lanes»

The governor's administration is under investigation by the U.S. Attorney's Office in New Jersey, as well as a state legislative panel, after aides orchestrated the closing of access lanes to the George Washington Bridge last September out of apparent political against the mayor of Fort Lee.

A trio of New York lawmakers are calling for a New York - based investigation of New Jersey officials closing access lanes on the George Washington Bridge in order to exact political retribution.

The need for reform comes in the wake of the Bridgegate scandal of 2013, when access lanes to the George Washington bridge were blocked leading to a major traffic jam.

(CNN)-- A New Jersey State Assembly committee on Friday released a large batch of more than 2,000 pages of documents that are part of its investigation of top appointees to Gov. Chris Christie who closed down access lanes in September to the country's busiest bridge as an alleged act of political retribution.

To facilitate emergency vehicle access, race and personal vehicles must not be parked on any paddock road / safety access lane during an Event.

TSA PreCheck is the U.S. Transportation and Security Administration's priority security access lane at the airport.

On the day Foye ordered access the lanes reopened to local traffic, he said he got two visits from his New Jersey counterpart, Bill Baroni, who told him the lanes should be closed again even though they had caused huge traffic jams in Fort Lee, N.J., because they were «important to Trenton.»

NEWARK — Tuesday's Bridgegate testimony dropped a bombshell from star witness to the prosecution David Wildstein: that both New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo knowingly signed off on a fake «traffic study» as the reason that three local access lanes into the George Washington Bridge were funneled into one for four days in September 2013.

Boarding was somewhat of a zoo, thanks to a line of main cabin passengers that made it impossible to get to the Premier Access lane when the agent called first class for boarding.

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Members will use biometric ID verification to gain expedited entry to the ballpark via a Fast Access lane located at the Willie Mays gate.

Furthermore, many wind farms are located on working farms, since only a narrow access lane is needed for the turbines, leaving the rest of the land to be farmed as usual.

Both consolidated transit parking into a garage structure and kept bus access lanes unchanged, a major concern for MARTA.

Christie ultimately survived the worst crisis of his administration stemming from the intentional shutdown of access lanes to the George Washington Bridge, although one could credibly argue the incident and its fallout completely derailed his presidential ambitions.

In California, depending on the particular HOV lane, a vehicle must normally have a minimum of either two or three occupants in order to access the lane during operational hours.

Three years after Christie's deputies at the Port Authority closed access lanes to the George Washington Bridge, tying up traffic for days and spawning the scandal known as Bridgegate, the New Jersey governor — who early in his term promised to bring about a more favorable balance of power between his state and New York — is now largely deferring to Degnan and leaving the authority to its own devices.

Assembly Democrats announced former Assistant U.S. Attorney Reid Schar will help the Assembly Investigatory Committee as it further reviews the closure of access lanes to the nation's busiest bridge for four days last fall in an alleged act of political retribution by top aides to Gov. Chris Christie.

According to the widely reported narrative, Christie's top two appointees at the Port Authority, Bill Baroni and David Wildstein, had shut down access lanes to the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee as part of a half - cocked revenge scheme against Fort Lee's mayor for failing to endorse Christie for re-election.