the busiest bridge anywhere and it was all a traffic study. what this adds is a plan to jam up the traffic and blame on it a month-long traffic study was known to the christie appointees, the union chief and the same port authority police officer chip michaels who told the ft. lee chief of police that day that the jam-up was going to last a month. every day we're learning that more and more people knew about this plot, including key people in christie's own office. everyone we are to believe, i suppose, but the man in whose name they were doing all this. from the port authority to the governor's office people knew no one was to take a phone call from the ft. lee mayor. they were to maintain radio silence for as long as the traffic jam-up lasted. that could be a month. there were several traffic accidents caused by this bridge scheme, delays of emergency vehicles, and at least four cases where ambulances were held up, all for the purpose of putting some punishing squeeze