It’s one of the busiest bridges in the world, bringing thousands of commuters to and from New York City.

But CBS 2 HD reports that two workers supposed to be protecting the George Washington Bridge have been fired.

New photographs show them asleep on the job — on two separate occasions just in August.

“I ride over the bridge. I come down the path, again I see a guard sleeping in the shack and I thought: This is outrageous! I can’t take this!” Joe Lepore said.

So Lepore, a NYC bike tour guide, went public with the pictures he took Monday morning of a security guard snoozing inside his post on the GWB.

It wasn’t the first time Lepore witnessed a bridge guard sleeping on the job. He took shots of another guard back on Aug. 5.

“Maybe you just nod off at that one moment when somebody decides to sneak by some liquid nitrogen or some explosives and start to do damage,” Lepore said. “And I explained it to one of the guards on the other side. I said look if this bridge blows up, we’re all going, including you.”

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said the two guards in the pictures were fired Monday by FJC Security, the private security contractor the men work for.

Lepore said he couldn’t sit back and watch thousands of people’s lives be put at risk after he lost two friends and a cousin in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The Port Authority said it has spent more than $4 billion on security since 9/11.

The Port Authority Police Benevolent Association said it believes additional police patrols are needed to properly secure the George Washington Bridge.

(Source: WCBSTV)