Published in the Westchester Guardian, April Fool’s 2013
Dateline April 1, 2013. Through recent exposed documents partially obtained via the Freedom of Information Law, various news reports and personal observations, I have discovered through tireless, exhausting footwork, government plans to connect the borough of Brooklyn with the State of New Jersey. No, they are not building a dike or filling in the Greater New York Bay but plan on building a tunnel complex for the 22nd century.
Secret meetings were held not just with the local governments of the City of New York and New Jersey but with both current and former administrations as well as various Federal government institutions and specific branches such as Homeland Security, The National Security Administration and Naval Research and Development Arm (something about secret NIKE missiles from the 1960’s, Governor’s Island, and underwater launching pads).
Secrecy prevented cost overruns, rival bids, and keeping Fox News from complaining about big government and MSNBC for complaining about needing more government, as well as to keep Staten Islanders from celebrating too loudly that they will finally be left alone.
Background. As the new century rolled in, various factions of the government began looking into ways to expand…the infrastructure. Discreet feelers were put out to the captains of industry on ways to improve and move the U.S. into 22nd century. Some northeast ideas were to connect Eastern Long Island with Rhode Island and making the entire borough of Queens, except for Citifield, one large airport.
The rest of this article will focus on the plan approved for the 22nd Century Capital Construction Project (CCCP).
Bypassing Manhattan and somehow connecting the Borough of Brooklyn to New Jersey was unanimously approved. Three methods were discussed – a bridge, a tunnel, or combinations thereof. Ralph Nader’s plan of a highway built directly across the bay, made of recycled glass and plastics was denied (after initial construction was tried). Also denied was a combined plan from Donald Trump and the descendants of Washington Roebling. This family, whom for over 100 years has been trying to improve upon a design greater than the Brooklyn Bridge, submitted a plan for a suspension bridge that like their original bridge would be the tallest structure in the city with a Trump Hotel dead center. The span would rise above and over lower Manhattan.
The Final Choice. Seen as an opportunity of creating a new source of prime real estate, an underground complex would be built. It would be more than just a roadway, but something on the scale of a huge underground mall with stores, entertainment facilities, and a Trump Hotel.
The tunnel is not to be dug underneath the bay floor, but laid on the surface. Now code named The Seaview Project, it is to be constructed using modular techniques similar to the space station development. Parts, solely manufactured in the U.S., are to be stored on Ellis Island (it’s closure in not due Hurricane Sandy and will open after the official announcement) and assembled in Bayonne. Each module will be twenty feet in length and 300 feet wide. They would then be lifted using US army Ch-47A Chinooks. Divers have already marked the floor under cover of darkness. When an official announcement occurs, the modular pieces would then arrive.
There will be five lanes for cars, 2 railroad tracks, bicycle and walking paths. Sections of the tunnel would be constructed using a transparent-plastic carbon to attract visitors to view the ocean life. Having transparency throughout the entire complex is deemed too dangerous of a distraction for the highway. Of course, there would be concession stands, rest stops, and Trump has been hinting about hotels with windows having direct views of undersea life. Tasteful ads would line the paths. When combustion automobiles become obsolete the roadbeds can be converted to support future vehicles and operate under the same principles as bumper cards do.
For generating self-efficiency, various methods of convertible heat exchanges have been tested and approved. The roadways will be embedded with heat sensitive transponders. As the road surface temperature heats up, an increase in heat generates electricity which is transferred to turbines that power the exhaust fans. The mass movement of traffic creates a lot of wind. This wind then moves miniature windmills (about six inches in height and six inches apart) creating storable energy and recharging various battery systems that feed the generators. Outside of the tunnels are motion detectors, as the water current passes through these nodes, miniature turbines generate power to the main energy plant. There are also more heat transfer modes generating energy as the bay’s water temperatures fluctuate. This will also add to the self-sustaining system resulting in the elimination of tolls.
Financing has been either secured and/or initiated. Allen Konigsberg, Moses Horwitz and Julius Marx, Comptrollers of the NSA, CIA, and GCS respectively, have developed various principle sources of funding: advertising revenue, 200 year bonds, movie and book rights, tourism and hotel revenues and the sale of 50-50 raffle tickets (offering such prizes besides cash as free tours of the work in progress). Commercial and corporate enterprises are also sought to sponsor and promote sections of roadway. Individuals can purchase bricks and have family names imprinted. Enough ongoing funding should offset the need for toll collectors.
The Holland Family had independently submitted this “tunnel” project 50 years ago, but plans had to be resubmitted to conform to standards. From IBM punch cards then via five and a quarter floppies, then to three inch disks and finally back to paper when it was discovered that no two involved entities had compatible computer technology.
Completion date, with most of the permits in, is approximately 2020AD. Redoing the pre-licensing and permits will create a small workforce but add 15 years to the pre-construction phase.
All the information discussed here has been legally obtained. The pieces of the puzzle were out there, but it takes good investigative work to fit these pieces together.
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