And there it sits. Remember the 2008 groundbreaking, followed by months of relocating utility lines and dealing with polluted soil? Remember how glad we all were when this thing finally started taking shape? Well, we are still waiting for completion, and we will wait for quite a while longer. The lawyers and engineers are trying to decide whose set of specs they were supposed to be following. The builder says they followed the specs they were given. Metro says that the concrete is too thin in some places, too thick in others. One side wants to patch up the bad places and move forward. The other side wants to rip the whole thing down and start over. They have spent about $100 million on this already. About the only good thing you can say about this gargantuan hunk of concrete is that it provided some people with employment during the depth of the crash these last few years. That's small comfort to the thousands of commuters who have to walk all the way around the construction site every day just to get to their bus stops.
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