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Metro has spent $3.8 million and 5 years building 2 bike racks. They're still unfinished.
wjla.com ^ | February 12, 2020 | Sam Sweeney

Posted on 02/15/2020 10:38:50 PM PST by grundle

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To: grundle

It is really something how “officials” can waste OPM (Other Peoples’ Money). They should be arrested.


81 posted on 02/16/2020 9:16:55 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Many years ago the always-nitwit DIMs/LIBs in Fairfax County VA bought many hundreds of police cars that they allowed to rot in parking lots for years...never used. Criminals.


82 posted on 02/16/2020 9:19:31 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Funny...I would never want to be in a Chinese built building...


83 posted on 02/16/2020 9:28:10 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: bert

Nope, as someone who do construction, I’d make sure it will stand a Hurricane, Earthquake, Tornado and a flood at the same time.


84 posted on 02/16/2020 9:37:16 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: grundle

Uncle Lou leaves message with transit agency head meet me at the bar we can split the money there.


85 posted on 02/16/2020 9:42:42 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: cba123

It not a real hospital.


86 posted on 02/16/2020 9:44:52 AM PST by DeplorableGirl
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To: grundle

Everybody involved with this phony balony project should be investigated and probably prosecuted for fraud.


87 posted on 02/16/2020 2:10:25 PM PST by wildbill (The older I get, the less 'life in prison" means to me)
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To: minnesota_bound

Very perceptive comment.


88 posted on 02/16/2020 2:11:57 PM PST by wildbill (The older I get, the less 'life in prison" means to me)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Can it store more than 92 bikes?


89 posted on 02/16/2020 4:50:41 PM PST by NativeSon ( What Would Virginia Do? #WWVD)
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To: minnesota_bound

/Why would you need a covered bike rack?

Because it rains while you’re not on your bike. It snows, etc. Now, if you are a frequent bike commuter, you probably have at least a plastic bag to go over your seat while you’re gone, but it’s nice to have the whole bike covered.

I live in a university town that not only is partial to bikes, but frequently hosts a leg of a major bike tour in my state. However, no way on God’s green earth would these Midwesterners countenance spending that much money on a just bike shelter.

For $12.8 million we got a new facility with parking, bike lockers, showers, a bus interchange, wi-fi, and electric charging stations. Worth the money, I think.

I’m from DC. I know how expensive things can get in the metro area and the likelihood of ‘overruns’ (usually into someone’s pocket). I’m not surprised they couldn’t even build bike shelters without it turning into a financial disaster.


90 posted on 02/16/2020 5:44:53 PM PST by radiohead
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To: radiohead

Biking rain covers : )
https://tinyurl.com/t4949da


91 posted on 02/16/2020 6:08:46 PM PST by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
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To: grundle
The covered bike shelters will house 92 bikes, putting the price tag at more than $20,000 per bike.

I believe automobile parking structures cost about $60k per stall.

92 posted on 02/17/2020 10:15:46 AM PST by gogeo (The left prides themselves on being tolerant, but they can't even be civil.)
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To: grundle

Only in a Democrat run city could 2 bike racks for 92 bikes cost $3.8 million and take 5+ years to build


93 posted on 09/18/2020 6:28:26 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: grundle

How much energy has been wasted on this project for 92 bikes? Why didn’t they just buy two more diesel/electric buses, which could have been transporting those people for the past five years and many more years to come?


94 posted on 09/22/2020 4:16:22 AM PDT by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: silverleaf
A couple of Eagle Scouts could build bike racks for free

Eagle Scouts probably are couples now, right?

95 posted on 09/22/2020 4:25:27 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: george76

You’re posting about this 7 months later. I’m sure that those bike racks are done by now.
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I was at a government facility off and on for 6 months. In the locker room/rest room that I used there was a box sitting on the floor near a sink that was missing.

2 months later the sink had been removed from the box.

Another 2 months and the box was gone.

Another 2 months and the new sink’s parts were scattered about in the corner.

I never made it back to see if it got put in. Similar crap at other government sites. It is just crazy.


96 posted on 09/22/2020 4:33:56 AM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
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To: silverleaf

I wonder how many really died


97 posted on 09/22/2020 4:34:47 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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