Silver Spring Transit Center: keeping it simple

OK; let’s keep it simple: 

Wiktionary says that “an accident waiting to happen is a thing or situation which is almost certain to eventually lead to an accident. Example: Someone needs to repair that worn-out old bridge. It's an accident waiting to happen!”
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/accident_waiting_to_happen

All the signs are there:

• Extensive concrete cracking in a new building
• A detailed engineering report (KCE) that identifies other design, construction and testing flaws

                - Slabs more than an inch thinner than they’re supposed to be
                - Complete lack of expansion joints
                - Exposed reinforcement
                - Missing reinforcement
                - Overstressed and understrength concrete
                - Under-designed beams
                - Suspect concrete test reports
                - etc.

• 3-inch thick pieces of concrete falling from the building
• Warnings from WMATA’s engineers
• Warnings from the Augustine panel

Focusing on the first bullet alone, the laws of physics are unyielding. When a brand new concrete building cracks extensively, before it’s subjected to the loads for which it is intended (cars and fully loaded buses), something(s) is terribly wrong. 

The laws of physics are unyielding regardless of intent. They don’t take into account that we meant well. Likewise, consequences for violating the laws of physics don’t take into account politics, or money, or people’s feelings, or their opinions. The laws of physics aren't opinions; they're natural laws. 

Breaking the laws of physics leads to certain and unyielding results. People in North Korea know this all too well: http://www.smh.com.au/world/serious-north-korea-building-collapse-20140518-zrgfr.html . "KCNA said the accident had occurred last Tuesday and was the result of "irresponsible" supervision by officials in charge of the construction. ... The KCNA did not provide a death toll or elaborate on the cause of the collapse, but said it had left Pyongyang citizens "greatly shocked". The agency carried lengthy public apologies by senior officials including the Minister of People's Security, Choe Pu-Il. (Choe) repented of himself, saying that he failed to find out factors that can put at risk the lives and properties of the people and to take thorough-going measures, thereby causing an unimaginable accident," it said.

Two questions:

1. Why would anyone doubt that the brand new, yet-to-be-opened Silver Spring Transit Center is a lemon?
2. Why would anyone accept a flawed lemon for a transit center when they paid more than retail for a brand new one?