http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/transit-center-report-public-at-risk-from-falling-concrete-without-additional-repairs/2014/04/29/90bdf8a2-cfca-11e3-a6b1-45c4dffb85a6_story.html NEW!!! (also read public comments to the article)
Can there be any doubt at all that the yet-to-be-opened, severely flawed Silver Spring Transit Center is a lemon?
Why should we, the public (local, state & federal), who paid and are paying for the SSTC, accept this lemon? If you had the misfortune of buying a brand new automobile that was a lemon, would you accept it? No. If you purchase any new product that is defective, what do you do? You take it back. Why should we accept a brand new transit center that is severely flawed, is under repair before it even opens, and will require an inordinate amount of public funds to operate and maintain it?
We're paying more than retail for a brand new, state-of-the-art transit center. 53% of the funding for the $120+ million (and counting!) SSTC are federal funds; 11% are MD state funds; and 36% are local Montgomery County funds. Montgomery County, the Federal Transit Administration and the Maryland Transit Administration are trying to ram the defective lemon SSTC down our throats without so much as a public meeting so that we can ask our questions and make our comments on the public record. That's a fine way to treat those who are paying the freight! Tell Montgomery County, the FTA and the MTA "NO!" to the defective lemon Silver Spring Transit Center.
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