“Dear PoPville,
Not a DC resident, but I do spend a lot of time ferrying my partner to medical appointments in Foggy Bottom. We hate cars too, but when he has a medical procedure, he needs to be driven (and prefers not to be vomiting in the vehicle of a stranger so that knocks out rideshare). I’m a #freeparkingisntfree adherent so I’m down with paying for parking, but why doesn’t DC make it easier?
I have parking mobile, but DC is the only jurisdiction where I use it where the zone is often not marked (including on the machines). Why not? Also, hello and welcome to 2023. $2 an hour is not the market clearing rate for parking. Parking expert, Donald Shoup, says you know the rate is about right when there is one open spot per block. In Foggy Bottom, that is not the case at all. Probably not in other neighborhoods either. Why doesn’t DC come to terms with reality and update the rates? DC and parking users would benefit, as would the peds and cyclists who have to deal with irate drivers hunting for parking.”