Christie , Wildstein , Samson and Baroni were photographed together at the site of the World Trade Center during a commemoration of the 12th anniversary of the terrorist attacks . On that occasion , Wildstein later testified , Baroni sarcastically told Christie , " Governor , there is a tremendous amount of traffic in Fort Lee , please know Mayor Sokolich is frustrated he ca n't get his calls returned , " to which Christie was said to have responded , " I imagine they would n't be getting their calls returned . " According to Wildstein , Baroni then told Christie that Wildstein would monitor the traffic , and Christie responded , " Well , I 'm sure Mr. Edge would n't be involved in anything political , " and laughed . ( " Wally Edge " was the pseudonymous persona used by Wildstein in his earlier highly political blog . ) On Thursday , September 12 , PA engineers said that reported delays for local traffic greatly exceeded any time savings for the major highway traffic based on reported information for vehicle travel times on Interstate 95 and local traffic counts from that week . In an internal PowerPoint presentation , it was estimated that the extra daily morning rush hour time , 2,800 vehicle-hours , endured by local traffic on a typical day greatly outweighed time savings , 966 vehicle-hours , for the I-95 traffic
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