Silver Spring (Bizarro World) Transit Center

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10/02/14

http://www.gazette.net/article/20141001/OPINION/141009785/1266/leggett-has-earned-another-term%26template=gazette&template=gazette

"For the primary, The Gazette chose not to endorse Leggett. We believed, and still do, that he must be held accountable for debacle of the Silver Spring Transit Center. It was supposed to open in 2010 at a cost of $95 million. Still not open, the price tag has reached $120 million. The project stains Leggett’s record."

Hold him accountable by electing him to another term. Only in Bizarro World, by the Bizarro World Gazette. There's a lack of good choices for Executive on the Montgomery County ballot. Write in "Bizarro".

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

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Who remembers DC Comic's "Bizarro World"? 
I do.

"In popular culture 'Bizarro World' has come to mean a situation or setting which is weirdly inverted or opposite of expectations."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bizarro_World

Who can deny that Silver Spring MD is actually Bizarro World?

• where citizens pay more than retail for a brand new transit center, and accept a seriously flawed, lemon instead? (53% federal funding, 11% MD, 36% Montgomery County)
• where citizens pay for repairs to the seriously flawed, lemon, Silver Spring Transit Center?
• where repairs to the lemon SSTC won't correct the problem--the SSTC's total lack of expansion joints? (standard construction practice and WMATA design and construction standards, to which the lemon SSTC was supposed to have been designed and constructed, require expansion joints in structures exposed to temperature changes. WMATA requires them to be spaced no more than 100 ft. apart. The 315 ft. by 580 ft. lemon SSTC has none.)
• where Montgomery County selects the lemon SSTC's builder/contractor, design engineer and concrete inspector/tester non-competitively, and nobody cares? (Were political "contribution$" part of the $election proce$$?)
• where Montgomery County politicians and staff and the County's paid and unpaid consultants insist that "the SSTC will absolutely be safe", despite the fact that the SSTC is cracked throughout, has slabs more than an inch thinner than what they're supposed to be, has more than 250 underdesigned beams, chucks of concrete have fallen off, etc., and people actually believe them?
• where news media (print, TV, radio, internet) fail to challenge Montgomery County's press releases and other unqualified public statements before they report them?
• where news media tout that they cover the news "in depth" and that they ask "probing questions", but fail to do either?

Yep. Silver Spring MD is Bizarro World.

And, the Silver Spring Transit Center is a lemon.

Silver Spring Transit Center