Traffic Study

A malicious payback that blows up in your face and ruins your career while leaving the intended victim unscathed.

"I don't know what makes a legitimate traffic study," New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said today at a press conference at the State House in Trenton. Bill Baroni, Christie's deputy executive director at the Port Authority, produced data that was "evidence" of a traffic study, Christie said today, but he doesn't know "the nuance of what constitutes a traffic study or not." The emails that emerged yesterday further support the widespread belief that the illusory traffic study was an after-the-fact fig leaf covering Baroni's role in an act of political retaliation directed at Fort Lee mayor Mark Sokolich, whose constituents were worst affected by the closure.

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