I Heart the Burlington County Bridge Photographers Association · 244 words posted 07/21/2005 07:50 PM

Tacony-Palmyra Bridge OK, so there is no Burlington County Bridge Photographers Association, but there should be.

According to the New Jersey Courier Post, unauthorized photography of two Burlington County bridges is banned:

The Burlington County Bridge Commission has prohibited taking photographs of the Burlington-Bristol and Tacony-Palmyra bridges in the wake of the London train bombings.

The ban is just one of the new steps the commission took after the bombings, said bridge commission Executive Director George Nyikita, who declined to specify others for security reasons.

“We’ve had a bunch of homeland security measures in place since 9/11,” Nyikita said. “Whenever the alert is raised or lowered, we raise or lower the measures we take.”

The reason for such a ban is clear, Nyikita said.

“A trained engineer can photograph a bridge and pick out critical spots where a bomb could cause the most damage,” he said.

Thankfully, some amateur photographers will still be able to take pictures of the bridges in question:

Nyikita said the bridge commission is not ruling out amateur photographers all together, but said “we’d have to do a background check.”

Fortunately, if you’re not up for a background check you can just try google or google images.

Feeling safer yet?

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1. On Jul 22, 01:54 AM Neculai Macarie said:
At some point I wanted to live in the US, but idiotic security measures like this changed my mind. These measures bring zero security at the expense of freedom. Next thing will be to have people blindfolded as they approach the bridge because you can of course see it and make a drawing that can be used by terrorists… #