I once working in archaeology in NYC almost drove a U-Haul truck onto the Brooklyn Bridge just before rush hour. Imagine my surprise, the sign, with chains hanging from it on the Brooklyn side, the sign said "11'0"" with chains hanging from it to scrape at anything that or larger. I got up on the bridge and on the the metal frame or cage was the sign said "10' Clearance"! I stopped, because the label inside the truck said 10' 6" and backed the truck, with my friend the backhoe engineer Mr. Harvey who served as a West Point MP during WWII, with assistance from the woman Traffic Officer who pulled up behind me just as I got onto the bridge. Apparently "No Commercial Traffic" means all trucks generally. She helped hold traffic while I backed down the bridge and she let me go since the whole "non-event" took about 5 or 10 minutes. We went around the long way with the burlap coffee bean bags for the salt-hay and winter usage to keep the site from freezing up.
The point is, you can't drive most any truck onto the Brooklyn Bridge, it's constantly watched and only large enough for the smallest of trucks. Are we sure this testimony was not made up? Or a fantasy? Newsvine link
12/1/06 Does the testimony show facts of a plot that fits reality, i.e., there are no trucks on the Brooklyn Bridge. The story is a little unbelievable without facts, they were going to use a what with what on a bridge said to have been built to 1000% structural integrity an engineering standard not, to my knowledge, used on other bridges.
Maybe it can't just say on the State regulated signage, "No Trucks" and instead 11' then 10' because Americans drive around in trucks, i.e., SUV's and due to legal language they can't just say so. Say the day as an Afghan-American, the US bombed a hospital twice, (or the power plant in Iraq 11 times) and I call my brother there and say, I'm so mad I want to blow-up the Brooklyn Bridge! Then I tell you I said so. Is that what the story refers to? I don't know its all under War Powers Secrets probably. I didn't know until last year people from 17 nations in the western hemisphere of Japanese ancestry were hauled out of their respective countries in WWII and put in US camps. They unlike, Japanese-Americans finally, were never recompensed for it, though the government just recently admitted its reason was racism. Republicans claim to want to reform the War Powers Act every time they're out of office and seem to use it more than anyone when they're in office.
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