Silver Spring Transit Center: once a lemon, always a lemon

"March 2013. KCE Structural Engineers issues report on the SSTC stating the facility is 'severely compromised' and requires extensive remedial strenthening and repair to meet Building Code and WMATA requirements."

This is taken from a presentation that Ed Blansitt, Montgomery County Inspector General, gave on September 3, 2014 to the annual conference of the Federal Audit Executive Committee (FAEC), Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria VA.

http://www.ignet.gov/faec-september-agenda-2014.html

Now we learn that Montgomery County is seeking to spend even more money on the lemon SSTC.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/montgomery-county-seeks-more-money-for-still-unopened-silver-spring-transit-center/2014/09/16/06d622c2-3dbb-11e4-b0ea-8141703bbf6f_story.html

No amount of money or time will "fix" the Silver Spring Transit Center.

Once a lemon, always a lemon.

Silver Spring Transit Center

Can you hear that flushing sound?

SSTC: 53% federal funding, 11% state, 36% county