ALISON GENDAR and DOUGLAS FEIDEN
New York Daily News
April 6th 2008
Security plan for WTC means army of cops, barriers and traffic hell
Secret NYPD anti-terror plans would turn Ground Zero into Fort WTC – a bulked-up, battened-down, barricaded Ring of Steel, the Daily News has learned.
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Some 25 impregnable barriers and 13 guard booths would encircle the World Trade Center footprint under a draft plan circulated in late February.
At least 24 blocks on eight major streets would be closed or restricted to traffic under the proposal, which has been reviewed in City Hall and at 1 Police Plaza and is still being revised.
Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne wouldn’t address any specifics in the draft plan.
“No decision has been made on staffing or other security arrangements,” he said.
He called the number of checkpoints and guard booths “outdated,” saying they “provide an exaggerated picture of security plans.
“The NYPD is working closely with the Port Authority to provide for a safe, inviting and commercially viable World Trade Center site, not the fortress-like environment you describe,” Browne said.
The draft plan is modeled after London’s Ring of Steel, a maze of narrowed roads in the city’s financial district with limited entry points that force vehicles into chokepoints that cops can easily cordon off.
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