The legal wrangling over who is responsible for construction problems at the Silver Spring Transit Center that caused tens of millions of dollars of cost overruns has come to an end.
Montgomery County announced Tuesday the contractors that built the structure have agreed to pay the county a $25 million settlement.
County Executive Ike Leggett said that amount will cover most of the estimated $30 million the county spent on remediation costs to strengthen the concrete and steel beams at the structure, whose formal name is the Paul S. Sarbanes Transit Center.
“Obviously I’m delighted that we have a settlement,” Leggett said in an interview Tuesday. “The parties made an offer that we considered over the weekend and I decided it was in the public interest to accept it and that’s what I did.”
The $140 million transit center that connects the Silver Spring Metro station with several of the area’s bus lines opened in September 2015, four years after it was originally scheduled to open.
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