welcome to court casino. If reports are correct, then taxpayers are down $50 M and the Montgomery County MD executive is seeking another $1.6 M hoping to get a $77 M prize. A good bet? ... It would have been so much easier to "mind the store" in the first place.
from the comments to the WTOP report:
" 'it' covers a LOT of stuff over a LONG time. MoCo reviewed the plans and issued the permits--where are the expansion joints that WMATA requires every 100 feet? cracks appeared EARLY during construction--why wasn't something done then? pour strips in elevated closure slabs--how many people saw that there were NO rebars in the formed slabs before they were poured? watered down concrete--how does one(s) miss concrete that pours more like a liquid than a stiff mix. Who in construction doesn't know that in cold weather heat must be applied to curing concrete? and on and on..."
Silver Spring Transit Center
Paul S. Sarbanes Transit Center
Montgomery County MD
