Futuristic plan for NY includes LED bridge lighting in color
Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled a far-reaching futuristic plan for the city that includes color LED illumination of bridges, completely automated toll booths and driver facial recognition cameras for tighter anti-terrorism security.
“So much in today’s world is about the immediate, it’s about the here and now, it’s about Twitter, it’s about Instagram and focusing on getting one day to the next,” said the Democratic governor, who presented what he calls his New York Crossings Project at the New-York Historical Society on Wednesday. “The reality is, it’s the long view that matters, and what are they going to say 10 years from now and 20 years from now and 30 years from now about what we accomplished while we were here?”
But in the immediate future, about 150 members of the National Guard and another 150 state troopers are to be stationed full time at entrances and exits of bridges and tunnels leading to the city, starting in January. Cuomo said recent terrorist explosions in New York and New Jersey have renewed the need to bolster such emergency measures.