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“Reps parking badly”

By Prince Of Petworth

“Dear PoPville,

Hoping the hive mind can help figure out who this bad parker from the House of Reps might be, they’ve been parked partway in a crosswalk for 12+ hours and causing a bad situation for pedestrians. Blue Porsche with a 117th Congress plate (H-394), Tennessee rear plate. Navy Yard-on L st between 1st and Half. ” (more…)

“DDOT Launches New Digital Parking Permit System”

By Prince Of Petworth

From DDOT:

“Today, the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) announced the preliminary launch of ParkDC Permits, a new, centralized digital system for DC residents and their visitors to manage visitor, temporary, home health aide, and contractor parking permits via a single online portal. Live testing of ParkDC Permits begins May 12 with the digital system available to residents in two Advisory Neighborhood Commissions (ANCs) in Wards 1 and 6. The system opens up to residents District-wide on July 1. (more…)

You’re Doing it Wrong

By Prince Of Petworth

Thanks to R for sending from: “Hayes NE, right around Kenilworth Gardens. They were all in a neat row, so I have to assume they were placed there.”

Update: “Statement from Robert Gardner, Senior Government Relations Director at Lime:

“Please rest assured our operations team is working on resolving this issue immediately. Parking in bike lanes is completely prohibited under our user agreement and we will work to find out what went wrong here. We take numerous steps to prevent improper parking and promote safe riding and we will continue to improve our systems here in DC to prevent unfortunate instances like this one in the future.”


DC Plate

Martin writes: “Connecticut & R. Legitimately blocking a lane with zero you-know-whats to give.”

“(lack of) enforcement of reserved parking signs”

By Prince Of Petworth


Photo by Wayan Vota

“Dear PoPville,

Last year in May, I reserved spaces on my street for a moving truck, posted the signs before the required 72 hours, and had them validated by DDOT. The morning of my move, several cars were still parked in the reserved parking spaces. When I called the provided number to tow the cars, I was told that there was a long waiting list and that likely they would not be able to come within the required time frame. I asked to be added to the waitlist but never heard back beyond that. My moving truck had to park far away, increasing the expenses for my move. I was a bit annoyed that I had paid a $55 fee and gone through the trouble of getting the signs printed at the police station during COVID and following all the rules for nothing. So, after seeing some conversations from years ago on PoPville where folks had success getting their reserved parking fees refunded in incidents like this, I contacted different folks at DDOT several times over the past year. I’ve gotten a few responses routing me to different people who can supposedly help me better than the prior contact, but so far, no one has been able to refund my fee or give me an answer as to whether or not that is something they might do.

I had basically resigned myself to the fact that I wasn’t getting that fee back and given up, but I am once again moving in May and am in a quandary. If I knew signs would be enforced, then I would reserve spaces for the moving truck again in the locations where I am moving to and from. However, I am having a hard time considering paying over $100 in fees for these parking signs when the first time it was useless. (more…)

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