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24 Responses to “Good Parking News”

1. Gabriel Says:
   December 18th, 2008 at 2:36 pm

   The inauguration is sounding more and more like hell all the time. This thing is going to be on TV, right?

2. BruceMcF Says:
   December 18th, 2008 at 3:04 pm

   Gabriel, losing free parking spaces you cannot park in because they are full is not an increase in hellishness for the majority of people trying to get to the Inauguration.

   That is, its only a hypothetical bummer for those people be able to get to the Inauguration and not be able to get to the Mall because of a deep-seated public transport phobia who would have been able to get a parking space.

   The larger the share of the population that has that deep seated public transport phobia, the smaller the share of the phobics who would be able to snare one of those parking spaces, so if that psychological disorder is sufficiently widespread to pose a credible problem, free parking is no answer.

   Indeed, even Sydney, with its decrepit commuter rail system, was able to formulate a public transport plan in 2000 that was able to cope with two weeks of Olympic crowds … if Americans cannot come up with a public transport plan to cope with crowds for a single big public event, we have no business having big public events.

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   December 18th, 2008 at 3:17 pm

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4. Njorl Says:
   December 18th, 2008 at 3:23 pm

   They should charge $100/hr reduced by a penny for every yard from the Capitol. They’ll still fill every spot.

5. Peter from Mass. Says:
   December 18th, 2008 at 3:29 pm

   But it’s quite possible that 2-hour meters will not be adequate for people who want to watch the Inauguration. And giving everybody who overruns their limit standard parking tickets is probably a bad idea.

   Maybe you should be able to buy special all-day parking passes for some reasonable sum.

6. Peter from Mass. Says:
   December 18th, 2008 at 3:32 pm

   Better idea: ration the number of special all-day parking passes to be somewhat less than the number of available parking spaces, and distribute them in advance.

7. MikeJ Says:
   December 18th, 2008 at 3:50 pm

   I thought the parking was free at metro because they’re running a holiday schedule and parking is always free on holidays.

   The bit about “catastrophic shortages” is nonsense though. What makes a full lot “catastrophic”? How will the fact that the lot is full be any different from the full parking lot at most metro stops M-F every week?

8. bdbd Says:
   December 18th, 2008 at 4:43 pm

   “its” not “it’s”

9. Njorl Says:
   December 18th, 2008 at 4:52 pm

   “How will the fact that the lot is full be any different from the full parking lot at most metro stops M-F every week?”

   There will be more traffic, more cars driving from lot to lot etc. This is not just a confluence of a baseball game and a concert both starting at the evening rush. This is six times the population of DC all going to the Mall at the same time – eight times as many people as the 4th of July celebrations.

   Honestly, if you come to DC for the Inauguration, I wouldn’t expect being able to park, or be driven. Don’t even expect to be able to ride public transportation two hours before or after the swearing in. Metro has never dealt with more than 900,000 riders in one day, let alone all at once. Be ready to walk from where ever you sleep the night before.

10. Just Karl Says:
    December 18th, 2008 at 4:56 pm

    A lot of people are going to want to come to the city on Inauguration Day, and making parking free won’t magically increase the volume of space in which they can rest their vehicles.

    What about parking tickets? Shouldn’t the city go anal ticketing everybody as soon as the meter changes? Most of the cars will be from out of town, anyway.

11. roac Says:
    December 18th, 2008 at 5:09 pm

    Some people apparently think this is about parking meters. It isn’t. It’s about parking at Metrorail stations.

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