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December 3, 2007
The best reason for not airing security concerns...
...because they know that they're real.
At last week's press conference, 33rd District City Councilman David Yassky, produced the best reason for keeping security concerns of Atlantic Yards under wraps:
"I suspect that when the security thread is pulled, that may well unravel a whole ball of yarn that is holding this project together. We saw this with some of the Ground Zero buildings, we've seen this with the Goldman Sachs building Downtown — people didn't want to air the security concerns because they knew they were real.
"When they were aired they had to make serious, serious changes. I think that when the security concerns get a real look here, people are gonna see that they have to make changes and they don't want to. That is why we have not seen any security plan come to light.
"They will have two choices. They will either have to push the building back significantly and make serious changes in their plan. Or they will have to start talking about streets, and I will say this, if they start talking about street closures, they will see unyeilding opposition. This project will already have such a disasterious impact on traffic, if they start doing that.. they will meet, I believe, a tidal wave of opposition
"I think that may be the reason that they may have been so quiet, so mum, on the security issue. The community, the public, is owed an answer and owed a serious genuine security plan, we are entitled to that."
Posted by lumi at December 3, 2007 7:30 PM