The Silver Spring Transit Center connection to the Purple Line

MD Gov. Larry Hogan campaigned against funding the Purple Line. He said that MD can't afford mass transit projects like the Purple Line right now.

Neither can the US public.

Like the lemon Silver Spring Transit Center before it, the proposed Purple Line will be a public-private partnership. 

53% of the funding for the public-private partnership SSTC are federal funds. Tens of millions of dollars in federal funds have already been wasted on the severely flawed, $140+ million, lemon SSTC, which is undergoing "repairs" before it's even opened to the public.  Further, with extraordinarily high future operations and maintenance costs, caused by the SSTC's numerous and serious flaws, public $ could continue to be wasted on the SSTC for the next 50 years (specified service life) or longer. In the end, there's no telling how much more public $ will eventually be wasted on the public-private partnership, lemon SSTC.

Public-private partnerships = crony capitalism = government waste.

Crony capitalism

Montgomery County noncompetitively selected Parsons Brinkerhoff to design the SSTC, Foulger Pratt to build it and Balter Co. to inspect and test concrete and to serve as special quality inspector. Why? Crony captalism? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crony_capitalism

US taxpayers can't afford more debacles like the Silver Spring Transit Center any more than MD or Montgomery County taxpayers can.

STOP wasting the public's $.  STOP the public-private partnership Purple Line.

http://www.gazette.net/article/20141112/NEWS/141119858/1070/silver-spring-residents-still-have-hope-for-purple-line&template=gazette

It's amazing to me how cavalier that some people are about wasting the public's $.

Silver Spring Transit Center

It's also amazing to me how the mainline news media (print, TV, radio, internet) have failed to report on the SSTC's public-private partnership/crony capitalsim connection to the public-private partnership Purple Line.