Last year the leaders of the WTC site put webcams up around Ground Zero to show the public the progress at the site years after the disaster. A year later, the cameras are mysteriously pulled from the internet as construction finally begins downtown.
From the AP:
The view of ground zero just got a little smaller. The agency that oversaw the redesign of the World Trade Center site on Thursday stopped posting on its Web site hourly images from a camera pointed at ground zero.
The agency introduced the Web camera less than a year ago, saying it wanted to show progress in rebuilding more than four years after the 2001 terrorist attacks. Construction of the Sept. 11 memorial had just begun last March, but the site is much busier today.
Concrete footings are being poured around the footprints of the twin towers to support the memorial, steel columns are rising for a 1,776-foot skyscraper, a transit hub is under construction and officials are preparing land to build three more office towers.
There has been no comment as to why the images were abruptly stopped.
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