Pretty soon Montgomery County will press ahead with adding a two inch thick latex concrete overlay to the severely flawed SSTC. "Why?" you ask. Good question--too bad that we can't get an answer.
Montgomery County hasn't held any public meetings to explain to the paying public what they are doing and why. More than half the funding for the SSTC is federal funding; but, Montgomery County doesn't answer our questions or take our comments on the public record.
The fact is that the SSTC's extensive concrete cracking is most likely the result of the SSTC not having any expansion joints. Standard construction practice and WMATA criteria (to which the SSTC was supposed to have been designed and constructed) require that expansion joints be placed no more than 100 feet apart. The 315 ft. by 580 ft. SSTC has none.
Why is Montgomery County pressing ahead with adding a two inch latex concrete overlay when it won't fix the underlying problem (extensive concrete cracking caused by no expansion joints)? I want an answer to my question. You should want answers to your questions too. And, your comments and mine should be recorded on the public record. Until they are, there should be no more repairs to the brand new, yet-to-be-opened, and severely flawed SSTC.
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