We deserve better

First, we find out that instead of a brand new, state-of-the-art Silver Spring Transit Center that we're getting a $160 million, over-budget, overdue, seriously flawed Silver Spring Transit Center. It's like paying more than retail for a brand new sports car, and getting this:

Then we find out that Montgomery County MD is proceeding with 450 repairs (cost: $10.8 million) to the yet-to-be-opened Silver Spring Transit Center without ANY input from US taxpayers who are paying the freight. Despite HUNDREDS of reports in the media with quotes from Montgomery County officials, NONE of these reports or statements mention a public hearing(s) where Montgomery County officials explain to the paying public what they're doing and why, and take the public's questions and comments on the public record. It's an outrage. We're paying for the SSTC (more than half of the funding for the Silver Spring Transit Center are federal funds). We deserve better.

Tell your representatives in Congress (1 House; 2 Senate) that you object to YOUR money being wasted on beat-up wrecks like the Silver Spring Transit Center. Do it today; because, Montgomery County intends to waste more of your money on a 2 inch latex overlay for the severely cracked, yet-to-be-opened SSTC as soon as the weather breaks.