With more than three weeks having passed since its last meeting and with at least a month to go before its next, questions are starting to arise over whether the New Jersey legislative committee investigating last September’s closures of local access lanes to the George Washington Bridge continues to have any relevance and, if it does, whether it needs to shift its focus.
Republicans who make up the minority of the Legislative Select Committee on Investigation have been saying recently that the committee, even if its creation was questionable from the start, should now be looking at enacting legislation aimed at reforming the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the bridge and where an appointee of Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is said to have hatched the scheme.
