Update on Silver Spring Transit Center Fixes Expected Tuesday

What's being done to fix the nearly $120 million Silver Spring Transit Center, Montgomery County's unsafe and unusable transit hub? 

County council members are expected to receive a briefing on remediation plans Tuesday, April 9 at 11 a.m. David Dise, head of the county's general services department, will present in the Council Office Building in Rockville. 

Last month, an inspection report by independent firm KCE Engineering found issues with the center's concrete, girders, columns, support beams and, most disturbing for inspectors, an absence of support cabling on one level of the three-tiered facility. Dise said at the time that there would be no immediate timeline for fixes because they were "far too complex." 

The Gazette newspaper reported that Parsons Brinckerhoff, the center's original engineers, would design the fixes to the center. 

Since the March report, Council President Nancy Navarro (D-Dist 4) and Councilman Roger Berliner, (D-Dist 1), who leads the Transportation, Infrastructure, Energy and Environment Committee, sent a memo to County Executive Isiah Leggett requesting regular updates on the progress of the Transit Center. Councilwomen Valerie Ervin (D-Dist 5) and Nancy Floreen (D-At Large) said they wanted to hire an outside consultant to advise the council through the repairs. 

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