no one closed the bridge. Three of four lanes to toll booths were shut down coming from Ft Lee. Eight other toll booth lanes coming from farther west remained open. These twelve lanes funnel into four eastbound lanes across the river. There is also a lower deck with more lanes.
Why do we seem to buy into the misleading language provided by the leftist media? What did happen is bad enough without giving the country the impression that the only bridge into Manhattan from the west was completely shut down.
One very peripheral lesson to be learned from this is that traffic is a serious concern. Shutting just three lanes from the south, out of twelve, caused four-hour delays. That is why we pay so much attention to traffic in a monster metropolitan area and have professionals in charge of it. A two-bit political aide is not likely to have a grasp of the issue.
As I said, peripheral. Possibly worth bearing in mind, in the sense of they had no idea what they were doing.