mystery surrounds metal towers popping up in tunnels an bridges

[Daitengu]

From your source:

It’s a $100 million MTA project shrouded in secrecy, with 18 of them for tunnels and bridges.

Hmm... that doesn't sound good at all.  

Lhota: “The base of these new pieces that are going up include whatever fiber optics are necessary for those Homeland Security items.”
In other words, anti-terror technology. Could that one day include facial recognition? We don’t know and Lhota won’t say.
“I’m not at liberty to discuss that,” he told Carlin.

As JFK said, keeping secrets from the public is never a good thing.  Yet, here they are in full view, and the people have no idea what they are.  One can allow his/her mind to go to all kinds of crazy places with this!

 Calling all space brothers!! Someone PLEASE come pick me up. I'm ready to get off this f-uped planet!!  

But is for ya own good mystic ...... after all the government is there to oppress..... oops..... mean help ...... what could possibly go wrong ......

Good luck ..... still cant get em to land here so can hijack.... erm.... indefinetly borrow ..... their ship to get off this backwater rock .....