Photo by Haleigh Hoffman
hahaha this is a new one even for me! Thanks to Haleigh for sending over the weekend from Insomnia Cookie’s H Street, NE location.
parking
“Dear PoPville,
Got a ticket the other day parked on this side of the road, Wednesday at 10:22 A.M. Had to think about this one for awhile but to me, this sign means no parking from Wednesday at 9:30 P.M. to Thursday at 11:30 A.M. However, after the ticket, I believe this sign is misprinted and should say A.M. instead of P.M. (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
Someone was *really* pissed their “no parking” signs were ignored. Two cars on Belmont St NW near 16th St with the signs tucked under their windshield wipers, tastefully annotated.”
from H Street, NE
Following is a letter sent to multiple government agencies:
“I am a DC Ward 4 Resident who is alarmed at the onslaught of Free2Move cars parked on Petworth’s streets. At Gallatin and 9th Sts. NW last night, there were Free2Move cars parked on every single corner of this intersection!
On my block, a Free2Move car (plate R-38355) has been parked for FIVE DAYS. Then another Free2Move car showed up last night on my block (plate R-38432).
Every. Single. Household. On. My. Block. Owns. At. Least. One. Car.
You know what that means? (more…)
Thanks to Jennifer for sending from lower Barracks Row/Navy Yard. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
In fairness DDOT did respond this morning:
“Thanks for reporting. @311DCgov can you create a service request for these conflicting signs?”
Until then I anticipate plenty of: (more…)
Photo by PoPville flickr user Rex Block
Rex writes:
“This car has been sitting (illegally parked) in the same spot since September 2018 (six months as of this writing) — the oldest citation dates to September, and has been collecting paper ever since. City records indicate the vehicle has over $3000 in outstanding unpaid parking fines, but for some reason, it does not get booted or towed.”
Photo by Haleigh Hoffman
“Dear PoPville,
I parked my car on Columbia east of Ontario Place on Friday night in a zoned resident spot (I’m a resident). Knowing that there were a ton of emergency no parking signs up in the neighborhood for the rock n roll marathon course, my companion and I checked carefully, saw no signs, and left celebrating that I had found a spot that would be good for a while. Fast forward to Sunday, I find my car was towed Saturday at 1:52 am, with $150 in tickets, with the offense stating that no parking signs were posted.
I’m 100% certain there were no signs within a block, but of course it’s impossible to prove the absence of a sign two days later. Did anyone else have this issue with the marathon? Any success fighting these tickets?”
Thanks to Ori for sending exhibit 918: “In Eckington: in a crosswalk, on a curb, and MD plates“
Thanks to Ryan for sending from Dakota Crossing aka Costcoville:
“This is clown parking bro. Dude just rolled in and took FOUR SPOTS. Frickin MD drivers #amirite
I mean, in fairness the parking lot was pretty empty so he wasn’t inconveniencing anyone. But the principle of it…”
Photo by PoPville flickr user fromcaliw/love
And I’m OK with that though many will never know the joy of landing the spot. That feeling is indescribable. Like a perfect parallel parking job. I digress.
From DDOT:
“The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) today announced the release of an updated version of its parkDC mobile app. Version 2.0 of the app lets users identify, and navigate to, on-street and off-parking throughout the District of Columbia, with the option of searching for parking spaces by price and/or time period filters.
Developed by DDOT, the parkDC app was released in December 2016 to help reduce the time needed to find parking, improve turnover of high-demand spaces, provide better parking information and reduce congestion. The first version of the app provided real-time parking availability and rate information for the Penn Quarter and Chinatown neighborhoods, in the area bounded by H Street, 3rd Street, E Street and 11th Street NW. This zone is the location of DDOT’s demand-based pricing pilot program that uses meter rate adjustments to improve parking availability.
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