Ran out of money.
A couple of Eagle Scouts could build bike racks for free
China just built an entire huge HOSPITAL on 10 days.
10 days.
So if you were running a business, could you raise your prices anytime you wanted (taxes), put out products that often dont work and/or over budget and late....and there is no responsibility for all the cock ups?
When it’s not your money, who cares?
I want government to run my health care!
(said no one with a brain)
Think of all the deep government pockets that money had to go through before it became steel and concrete.
Let me guess.
Department of Defense contractors?
Queue Nelson :
Why would you need a covered bike rack?
People are riding their bikes outdoors.....
Arlington, Va., the home of voted-in stupidity, pitched in tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollar, along with either state or federal funds, for a BUS STOP that was heated (sidewalk), ironed your shirts while you waited for a bus, and wiped your butt if you had to sit too long. Total cost was well over $250,000 and it looks like a piece of shit glass. Totally useless. Doesn’t protect the waiting riders because the glass panels are not closed at the roof, are at bad angles to protect from the wind, and are too small.
Democrats run and ruin Northern Virginia. They have done it to Arlington, Fairfax County, and parts of Alexandria (though Alexandria city is a little more sane in its urban planning/space use).
Oh, I forgot Arlington’s Art Scape Sphere, Center, park, which are not basically closed. Bad location, expensive, no real parking and not needed in the form that they designed. More money, hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not more, down the crapper.
Don’t even get me started on METRO re the Subway system with which I am somewhat intimately knowledgeable due to having worked for a law firm who was handling construction claims re overcosts, cut-out lists, etc.
Poorly designed, poorly lighted, water leaks, poor security, an entrance floor that is wet and tilted (Navy/Archives stop (and dangerous),and stupid farecard machines. They wouldn’t build covers for the open entrance subways despite the fact that dirt, snow, salt, vegetation debris and paper trash was being blown down the steps and into the movement mechanism, which knocked a lot of them out of commission on a near daily basis. Then the covers (inadequate in any situation), cost too damaged much. A guy shopping at Home Depot could have build solid, sheltering covers for about 75% less.
If Trump had had the Subway contracts years ago, they would have been finished on time, worked the way they were supposed to work, and would be lighted to the point that you wouldn’t need a flashlight to see the platform.
There is a difference between private enterprise doing a job and govt planning that makes doing it right almost impossible.
Did McAuliffe award the contract to a Podesta?
Falls Church and Northern Virginia, bastion of libtardness.....when are mofos going to wake up to how libtard policies DO NOT work?
Wait, my bad, just throw more money at it...$3.8 mil on TWO bike racks, like wtf?!
The only solution to this is raise taxes for more funds. /Democrat
Graft. Just plain pure Graft. There is no other logical explanation.
As I always say, the Metro system is a jobs program. The fact that it also provides transportation is simply a by-product.
Five years! For a bike rack?! The Golden Gate Bridge and the Empire State Building were completed in less time. Combined!
Corrupt and incompetent.
Oversight by massive bureaucracy, and socialist Democrats want more of the same.
“Affirmative action” likely at work in the selection of these contractors.