We deserve better

If records were kept for this sort of thing, then, by size, the Silver Spring Transit Center (aka Paul S. Sarbanes Transit Center) could very well be:

• the most expensive
• the longest time to build
• the most flawed design, construction, inspection and management 

for all time in all of the world--needless to say, a dubious distinction. 

We deserve better--"we" being those of us who will use it and those of us who paid for it. "Those who will use it" is a MUCH smaller group than "those who paid for it".  Basically, ALL of us (everyone who pays federal taxes and user fees) paid for it. We paid retail, and then some, for a brand new state-of-the-art transit center, and we got damaged goods. It's like paying more-than-retail for a brand new, top-of-the-line, custom sports car, and getting this:

We deserve better.

But, WAIT! The dealer says "I'm going to 'fix' it. Give me the money for the repairs." 

And, we do! 

Another $21M approved for Silver Spring Transit Center

More good news! The dealer says that it's safe! (despite the way that it looks)

Congratulations! We've now got the most expensive, longest time to build, most flawed, "repaired"-even-before-it-opened, transit center in the history of the world.

We deserve better.

However...  When the people who are paying the most for the LEMON Silver Spring Transit Center--federal, state and local taxes, including $16+ million in county general obligation bonds, and another $5 million "shifted" from other well-designed and well-constructed public works projects, to pay for "repairs" to the yet-to-be-opened LEMON SSTC--stand by silently while their own county council approves another $21+ million for "repairs", before it even opens, then what else is there to do? 

Jonathan Gruber is right! ("Grubergate")

"...basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter..."

Silver Spring Transit Center