If only there were spec sheets for these things they could have referenced before starting construction...I’ve been working with the crew who has been doing the repairs on the bus stops. You know what the superintendent told me was the reason for having to repair the stops so quickly after being built just three years ago?
“Apparently the buses were heavier than they thought they were.”
I’m tired of people passing the buck to the generation before them and not taking responsibility for their “leadership,” which they so desperately wanted that they spent millions in campaigning for a $100,000+ per year job.
Call me paranoid, but if today's contractor is the original contractor, I suspect its intentional.
Step 1, ignore specs and build substandard municipal project.
Step 2, wait for your handiwork to fail requiring you to get paid to fix your original work.
Step 3, profit.
I say make the original contractor pay for it. Ill bet lunch the weight of the busses were well documented. Hell, they just had to ask Phoenix. (who also should have warned us about battery life) If the contractor failed to pour pads thick enough to support the weight of known vehicles, its on them.
But an envelope of cash to a city council member would prevent that.