DCist: Transit on Tuesday: All May Park, All Must Pay More

hillrat

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:26:40 -0500

dcist should totally put out the html for dummies link. Or you could DIY. Making HTML Tables - HTML Tutorials for the Complete Idiot

Disco Stu

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:54:41 -0500

dcist should totally put out the html for dummies link.

bobArlington

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:40:16 -0500

Hummmm. Sweet. Hey arlington, R U Listening? Here are two things to ponder: - Parking Rules need to be consistent throughout Arlington. Having some meters on during saturdays and some off is just a recipe for sticking people with tickets and making them miffed. - Street Parking should be short term for short visits to a store. Anything longer than short term, and push people into parking lots (this is not referencing the good parking meter areas like in Clarendon - this is on street parking). I am not sure why some shops dont scream. Like in Ballston, you cant order a pizza from the pizza joint -- because you cant park for 5 minutes to pick it up. - Oh and stop those stupid cyborg meters in the middle of the block that spit out receipts on tuesdays during odd months. There are so many things wrong with that things - they are disasters. Now for you stores. Its simple. Parking = business. Two spots in front of your store with nasty gram signs that say "Parking for Acme Stuff Store Only" = I'll go shop somewhere else. Really. Peace out.

Politburo

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:08:26 -0500

Wapo article is good.. but still falls into a very common trap. ""There is a whole confluence of government policies -- tax, spending, regulatory and administrative -- that have subsidized sprawl," said Bruce Katz, director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution. A gallon of gasoline costs more than $8 in Britain, Germany, France and Belgium, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. Much of the price difference is due to higher taxes." This paragraph reinforces the myth that the only way to change our policy is to add a $4 gas tax. There is also a very critical error in thinking here. The absence of a tax is not a subsidy. Our relatively low gas taxes were not what the wonk had in mind when he talks about subsidizing sprawl.

mdove11

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:15:28 -0500

Red Line delays after work, just so you know...

MtP

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:05:29 -0500

Little light this week. No note that this was on the front page of the Washington Post? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/04/AR2008080402415.html Sorry, no html skills.