my comment:
"well said. ... the transit center suit looked to me like a case of legal chicken. on one side: the owner, Montgomery County--the hand that feeds private engineers and construction contractors. on the other side: the private engineering firm, the general contractor, subcontractors, the private inspection and materials testing firm, their big-pocket insurance carrier(s) and the insurance carriers' lawyers.
The case was complicated by Montgomery County taking on the role of construction manager for the project. The county may have thought that they had a good case; but, if one "reads between the lines" of the KCE report (the private engineering firm that the county hired to investigate the engineering and construction problems), then the county's case wasn't as strong as the county made it out to be. Perhaps the county was counting on the "don't bite the hand that feeds you" principle, or the "deep pockets" principle or "my hired guns are bigger than your hired guns" principle; but in the end, it looks to me like the county rolled the dice, and they came up snake eyes. all were at fault, including the county."
The Paul S. Sarbanes Silver Spring Transit Center "monumental debacle" is a classic case of what happens when politicians play with house money.
Taxpayers--federal, state and local--lose.
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