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Blasting schedule set for Silver Spring transit center site

Jennifer Deseo — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:11:29 +0000

After endless digging and more digging, construction crews at downtown Silver Spring's transit center site will begin blasting at bedrock later this month, county reps announced.

Transit-center construction included contamination cleanup, county official confesses

Jennifer Deseo — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:32:28 +0000

Here’s the good news: Some of the construction work at Silver Spring’s transit-center site is cooking with oil. The bad news: It had also been cooking with nasty chemicals in the soil.

Crews at the Colesville Road site removed soil tainted with unspecified petrochemicals as part of their excavation work, David Dise, director of the county's general services department, told The Penguin at Saturday's library book fest. Peg that petrol on a fuel storage facility that Dise said was on that site back in the day.

Transit-center crews to blast into bedrock

Jennifer Deseo — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:46:37 +0000

Here's the good news: Some of the construction work at Silver Spring's transit-center site is cooking with oil. The bad news: The heavy lifting is still to come.

County wants slice of stimulus pie for Silver Spring

Jennifer Deseo — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:50:32 +0000

MoCo leaders hope Congress will consider footing the bill for projects that could help downtown residents.

Shuttle bus takes more renters for free ride

Jennifer Deseo — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:33:29 +0000

Need a lift from Summit Hills to the Tastee Diner? Holler at the short purple bus.

Transit-center construction shuffles bus stops

Jennifer Deseo — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:00:19 +0000

Ready or not, here comes the construction and an assload of new bus stops.

Transit center stalls ped-safety study

Jennifer Deseo — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:43:47 +0000

Detours downtown make it tough to gauge how people and cars normally interact, one official says.

Council gives transit center financial boost

Jennifer Deseo — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:36:42 +0000

The county council on Tuesday unanimously approved a $16.7 million appropriation — and then some — to cover the construction of Silver Spring’s transit center. The appropriation bridges the project’s original $75 million price tag with the rising cost of, well, everything. But the county council was feeling frisky during its weekly meeting and tossed the [...]

Elrich, Floreen: Pimp my transit center

Jennifer Deseo — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:22:41 +0000

The county needs 16.7 million extra bucks to break ground on downtown Silver Spring’s transit center. But two county council members say the project should go for more — about $1.3 million more. While the extra $16.7 million covers rising construction costs, the extra extra cash could buy the transit center glass-enclosed escalators, and a glass [...]

Silver Spring transit center in a fiscal hole

Jennifer Deseo — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:51:35 +0000

The cost of constructing Silver Spring’s transit center is running on the high side — $16.7 million over the original price tag, according to the director of Silver Spring’s regional center. Engineers and architects have put the transit center’s design through the wringer, performing “value engineering” to trim costs, Gary Stith told Silver Spring’s transportation committee [...]