Silver Spring Transit Center press release

Here's Montgomery County's press release:
http://www6.montgomerycountymd.gov/Apps/Council/PressRelease/PR_detailsnew.asp?PrID=14044

Here's mine:

Members of the news media and concerned citizens:

1. Ask the council how the repairs to the SSTC, "a concrete overlay" and reinforcing/repairing "certain beams and girders", will "fix" cracking in the SSTC's columns.
2.  Ask the council how the SSTC's complete lack of expansion/contraction joints, a major flaw identified in the county's (KCE) report, is being addressed. WMATA design and construction standards, to which the SSTC was supposed to have been designed and built, require expansion/contraction joints to be spaced no farther than 100 feet apart. The 315 ft. by 580 ft. SSTC has none.      
   
3. Ask the council why the county is repairing the severely flawed, lemon SSTC when the public was promised a brand new, unflawed transit center. 
4. Ask the council why the county selected Foulger Pratt, Parsons Brinkerhoff and Balter Company noncompetitively, when the contractor/builder, the design engineer and the concrete inspection and testing firm, and special quality inspector, are selected competitively for most large public works projects.
5. Ask the council if political contribution$ were part of the $$TC's $election proce$$.
6. Ask the council if they feel that the county has been good stewards of the public's investment ($130+ million, so far, including "repairs") in the SSTC (53% federal funding, 11% state and 36% county).
7. Ask the council why the public should continue to "pay through the nose" (e.g., high future operation and maintenance costs) for the lemon SSTC that result from its serious, inherent flaws.
8. Ask the council why there haven't been public meetings where citizens can ask their questions and make their comments on the public record. (Most citizens are at work when the council has its meetings. We rely on the news media to "walk the walk" and to report "in depth" and to ask "probing questions" that they so highly tout.)
9. In light of the county's own report (KCE), and later reports that "chunks of concrete" are falling from the lemon SSTC, ask the council if they believe that the SSTC does or doesn't present a threat to public safety. Ask for a show of hands.

Let's see if answers to these questions are in tomorrow's news media (print, TV, radio, internet) reports.