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.
#5. That is why most Democrats are politicians, not small businessmen. They would be failures the first day because their poorly designed and mounted doors wouldn’t open for business.
#8. Designed by Comrades Bernie Sanders and Liz Warren. Put together by Pete the B, Bloomberg the architect, and the work crew led by Lunch Bucket Joe.
Give it about a week. One strong wind and you’ll have chop sueyed patients.
To self re previous post. Spellcheck didn’t work.
Re the ArtScape fiasco, the line should have read as “”which are NOW basically closed”.
Last paragraph should have read “cost too damned much”, not “cost too damaged much”. My fault on that one.
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
You forgot to mention the Silver Springs transit center connected to the Metro station. That was deemed as a construction failure and at some point, they were discussing the idea of tearing it down completely because it could not bear the weight of buses pulling in.
There’s nothing that Metro in DC, Maryland or Virginia has done since 2000...that has shown any mature planning.
Graft. Just plain pure Graft. There is no other logical explanation.
Is anyone going to audit the spending on this?
Why? The purpose of government spending is spending, meaning this bike rack project is becoming ever more successful.
“Don’t kill the job”.
We used to build small cities out west in matter of days.
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!
Regan
Corrupt and incompetent.
The “Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority”—what could go wrong?
Oversight by massive bureaucracy, and socialist Democrats want more of the same.
“Affirmative action” likely at work in the selection of these contractors.
We tried the bike thing in my hometown. They were all stolen. So now they’ve upgraded and added more. What could possibly go wrong?
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