Montgomery County MD Executive and several Montgomery County Council seats are on the ballot.
News media (print, TV, radio, internet) have gone dark on one of the biggest stories in metro DC. Search the internet for news during the past month for the Silver Spring Transit Center--the $120+ million public (53% federal, 11% State of Maryland and 36% Montgomery County) lemon--and you will find nothing new has been reported on this major story for more than a month.
- Brand new, but unopened to the public
- Years' overdue
- Tens of millions of dollars over budget
- Being "repaired" before it's even opened to the public
- Severely cracked
- No expansion joints in the 315 ft. by 580 ft. structure, despite the fact that WMATA design and construction standards, to which the SSTC was supposed to have been designed and built, requires that expansion joints be placed no farther than 100 ft. apart
- Deck slabs more than an inch thinner than what they're supposed to be
- Understrength and overstressed concrete
- Exposed reinforcement
- Missing reinforcement
- "Chunks of concrete" falling from the building
- 250+ underdesigned beams
- etc.
- And, not a word of news on the project for more than a month
- Do you think that the election may have something to do with that?
Leave it to the news media.
They tout that they cover the news "in depth" and ask "probing questions".
They've done neither on this story.
Gutless.
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