Chris Christie most likely had full knowledge that his people purposefully and needlessly closed lanes on the George Washington Bridge, causing traffic gridlock on the one of the busiest bridge in the world.

Christie’s Bridgegate gridlock stunt actually played a part in the lives of Fort Lee residents being lost.

Good luck running for President as a Republican Christie! Maybe this will bring out he true Chris Christie, and he will switch sides and eventually become the Democrat on paper that he is in real life. I would not put it past him.

FORT LEE – Emergency responders were delayed in attending to four medical situations – including one in which a 91-year-old woman lay unconscious – due to traffic gridlock caused by unannounced closures of access lanes to the George Washington Bridge, according to the head of the borough’s EMS department.

The woman later died, borough records show.

In at least two of those instances, response time doubled, noted EMS coordinator Paul Favia, who documented those cases in a Sept. 10 letter to Mayor Mark Sokolich, which The Record obtained.

On Sept. 9, the first day of the traffic paralysis, EMS crews took seven to nine minutes to arrive at the scene of a vehicle accident where four people were injured, when the response time should have been less than four minutes, he wrote.

It also took EMS seven minutes to reach an unconscious 91-year-old woman who later died of cardiac arrest at a hospital. Although he did not say her death was directly caused by the delays, Favia noted that “paramedics were delayed due to heavy traffic on Fort Lee Road and had to meet the ambulance en-route to the hospital instead of on the scene.”

Emergency responders also were late in getting to a third medical emergency that first morning of the lane closures. It took Favia nearly an hour to arrive at a building where a person was experiencing chest pains “due to standstill traffic on Route 46 East. The Mutual Aid ambulance coming from Palisades Park and paramedics coming out of Leonia were also delayed due to the excessive traffic,” he wrote.

Delays in emergency response times continued the next morning when a call that should have taken three or four minutes to respond to took seven, Favia wrote. In that instance, a man was experiencing chest pains.

Christie Lied While People Died!

Once, twice, three times — in a month.

There were epic traffic delays, yet again, Monday night, because of emergency repair work at the George Washington Bridge.

And then on Tuesday the head engineer at the bridge told CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer that we haven’t seen the end of this.

The engineer admitted there’s nothing they can do to fix the ongoing problems.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is the agency responsible, but the governors of New York and New Jersey do have a say. There were calls on Tuesday for Andrew Cuomo and Chris Christie to do something before it happens again.

The traffic backs-ups have been potentially life threatening. The emergency repairs to the GWB have caused massive rush hour gridlock in New York City three times in the last month, including Monday night.

However, CBS 2’s calls to the two men who control the Port Authority, which maintains the GWB, New York Gov. Cuomo and New Jersey Gov. Christie, led nowhere – even after Port Authority chief engineer Peter Zipf told Kramer he couldn’t promise it won’t happen again.

Kramer: “Can you guarantee that between now and March, when you will finish this project, that there won’t be an emergency closure?”

Zipf: “I can’t guarantee it, but we’re doing everything in our power to prevent it.”

The problem for Zipf and chief structural engineer Bernard Yostpille is the that the emergency closures were unanticipated — events in the Port Authority’s $82 million repair of the upper road way, which is now 10 years past its “useful life.”

“We did not anticipate we’d have these cracks at all of these sections,” Zipf said.

The unanticipated cracks have occurred three times since Nov. 22. Lanes had to be closed for emergency work during the height of the evening rush hour, causing unimaginable delays. On Monday night, for example, the backups in New York City to the south went to Midtown and beyond on the West Side Highway and the northbound avenues. To the south the bumper-to-bumper traffic went into the Bronx and Westchester County.

And there’s another problem: The Port Authority has no alternate plan for diverting traffic for an emergency repair, including moveable barricades that would allow lane changes.

“We can’t move the median because it is part of the structure, so it’s not like in some of the tunnels where they can actually move the barriers for change to flow. We’re stuck here,” Zipf said. “It would be unsafe structurally. We can’t do it, and we can’t create a cattle chute where cars would be coming.”

Governors Cuomo and Christie do control the Port Authority, but both have refused to get involved, Kramer reported.

A Cuomo spokesman told Kramer to get her answers from the Port Authority. A Christie spokesman seemed surprised she was even asking the governor about a problem with the GWB. He wanted to know if she was called Gov. Cuomo, too.

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