Think about it

Montgomery County reviews and approves all construction, public and private, in the county, and issues construction and occupancy permits. For the Silver Spring Transit Center, Montgomery County's own project, the county was construction manager with a team of full time county employees on site during construction. 

• A March 15, 2013 report documents serious design, construction and inspection flaws with the Silver Spring Transit Center. 
• The SSTC's columns, girders, beams and deck slabs are severely cracked.     
  
• A May 2, 2013 report provides WMATA's consultant's evaluation of the SSTC.
• The 315 ft. wide by 580 ft. long SSTC has no expansion joints, despite WMATA's design and construction standards that call for expansion joints to be located no farther apart than every 100 feet.
• The SSTC was supposed to have been designed and built in accordance with WMATA's design and construction standards.
• "Repairs" to the SSTC do not address the SSTC's complete lack of expansion joints.
• Without expansion joints the SSTC will continue to crack in the future.
• An April 15, 2014 report by Montgomery County's Inspector General documents Montgomery County's deficiencies in managing the SSTC's design, construction, and inspection.
• On August 24, 2015 Montgomery County and WMATA filed a lawsuit against Montgomery County's handpicked builder, engineer and inspector, accusing them of negligence and breach of contract.
• More than four years overdue and $50+ million over budget, the SSTC opens to the public on Sunday, September 20, 2015.

And yet, Montgomery County's David Dise, Isiah Leggett, George Leventhal, Roger Berliner, et al claim that Montgomery County bears no responsibility in the SSTC's severe design, construction, inspection and management flaws. Really? Think about it.

Many of those who live and/or work in the many highrises in Silver Spring, Bethesda, Chevy Chase and Rockville will be watching the SSTC and following the lawsuit closely.

This is a comment from a Washington Post article.
Personally speaking, if this prediction happens, and someone(s) gets hurt or killed, then I wouldn't want to be David Dise, Isiah Leggett, George Leventhal, Roger Berliner, et al, or WMATA, or one of the many news reporters (print, TV, radio, internet) who supposedly "covered" this story, or one of the many transit center/Montgomery County/Democrat zealots (one who even suggested opening the transit center in March 2013 without addressing the widespread cracking), or, needless to say, the SSTC's private company engineer, builder or inspector. I hope that "chunks of concrete", that were reported months ago to have fallen from the SSTC, don't hit someone(s); but, the laws of physics are unrelenting.


"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." - Abraham Lincoln

except after March 2013, when David Dise, Isiah Leggett, George Leventhal, Roger Berliner, et al have fooled all of the news media all of the time.



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