Built stupidly upon the legitimate right of way of the vital North Central Freeway in downtown Silver Spring Maryland, this Transit Center boondoggle is 5x over budget ($26 million to $120 million), ridden with improper concrete construction, and may have to be torn down anyway. It stands as a temporary monument of the 'if it's transit it has to be good/highways bad' without regard to design mentality. Tear it down!
Also includes senseless real estate development encroachment upon the North Central Freeway right of way directly alongside the B&O Metropolitan Branch railroad corridor- a project politically botched during the 1960s near and following the assassination of the U.S. President who supported it, John F. Kennedy.
