Posted on 02/15/2020 10:38:50 PM PST by grundle
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (ABC7) — Metro has spent $3.8 million and taken five years to build two unfinished bike racks - at East Falls Church and Vienna Metro Stations.
WMATA originally budgeted $600,000 for each rack, but the price tag has soared to $1.9 million each.
The covered bike shelters will house 92 bikes, putting the price tag at more than $20,000 per bike. Future costs to finish the projects could raise that number even higher.
The projects were supposed to be completed in December of 2015 but remain unfinished in 2020.
Metro says due to “Numerous construction quality issues, including damage caused by a contractor repeatedly drilling into an underground duct bank, led to lengthy delays.”
The transit agency severed ties with the first contractor four years ago. Metro says a second contractor also did not meet its quality control standards. In a statement to ABC7, Metro says “Quality control issues with contractors can take time to sort out, but Metro determined it was more important to get the project done right rather than get it done quickly.”
In January 2020 signs at the fenced-off construction site said the project would wrap up in late 2018. After ABC7 aired its story in January, the signs were removed.
ABC7 has requested all documents related to this project between the transit agency and the contractors involved though a Freedom of Information Act request. We have still not received any documents.
While regular riders say they have not seen construction workers here in months, WMATA says it hopes to have the project completed in the next few months.
The government moves at the speed of smell with really expensive Kleenex.
Here in Washington State we have had a highway project in construction since 1990, I-405, and still not near completed. The initial cost was estimated at around $70M. Just the cost of the Bellevue to Lynnwood part by adding a toll lane has ballooned to $292 million by itself and is not near finished. People will come into the company that is contracted to do it and will retire, comfortably, before it is finished.
rwood
Another example of a Virginia city existing as a corrupt political sh!thole.
Good point!
“Why would you need a covered bike rack?
People are riding their bikes outdoors.....
Makes for a nice lightening conductor.
“China just built an entire huge HOSPITAL on 10 days.
I’d rather take my chances with the WuFlu at home than to walk into that building”
Yep, just proper cement foundation cure time is many days. This hospice facility is literally and figuratively a death trap.
Why is it covered? Why does it look like a cage? Why is it rusting already? Why does it have bicycle art on it?
It looks like a an architect who barely graduated landed a budget.
China can essentially go under martial law by pronouncement by the CCP
In fact looks like almost 750 million citizens already going under military and internal security controls by virtue of quarantines enforced by the power of the State
Admittedly, we lack this mechanism of efficiency
But faced with disasters we have done not a bad job, despite trying to honor the Constitution, separation of powers, a whack judicial system, and multiple layers of bureaucrats at federal agency, local and state levels
This however, will be unprecedented
And liberals are quick to point out waste in the Pentagon.
Built with help by a US contractor
Post of the day
Week maybe
A diverse group or groups, no doubt
Obviously the work of an affirmative action contractor and/or a close relative of a local politician.
Metro (WMATA) is run by politicians and political appointees, usually politicians who lost an election and need a job.
They certainly don’t know how to run a railroad.
Maybe they should ask President Trump for some assistance - he’s good at putting up quality buildings in a hurry. His crews would have had these things done in no time and under budget.
Without the latter, the former wouldn't survive.
The corrupt thrive in the realm of the incompetent.
Per Wiki...
Presidential Elections Results[37]
Year Republican Democratic Third Parties
2016 17.1% 1,324 75.0% 5,819 7.9% 614
2012 29.5% 2,147 68.9% 5,015 1.6% 114
2008 29.2% 1,970 69.6% 4,695 1.3% 85
2004 34.0% 2,074 64.7% 3,944 1.3% 80
2000 38.1% 2,131 55.6% 3,109 6.3% 353
Built in TEN days. Doesn’t matter what it is it was built in TEN days. You can’t really mean to make excuses for so many failed governments such as in this country can you?
A bike rack under construction for most of a decade? TEN YEARS? You can defend that against anything? Really? Why? Ours has become a failed system that is indefensible.
Did China bowdown to Environmental Wackos? I mean, did they remove the Endangered Chinese Red bellied Teal colored Beak Eagle from the area. I doubt it..
Re #11, Very true...and where will elites go for their healthcare? We might have expensive healthcare costs, but really why do Canadians come to the US for operations - because it will be taken care of without being on a list.
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