DCist: Mt. Pleasant Looks to Try New Parking Approach

IMGoph

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:06:58 -0500

point is, there are still a hell of a lot of people who will not think of anything but a car for getting around. no way, no how.

Virginia is for Losers

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:15:13 -0500

Do any of the MDUs in Mount Pleasant have parking garages beneath them? I'm pretty sure the answer is no, since (almost?) all of them were built back when the horseless carriage was still a novelty.

Reid

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:40:45 -0500

I love how the justification goes from "surely you have no problem with innocent school teachers" to giving parking to schoolteachers and "business employees". Frankly I'm not really won over by the schoolteachers lament anyway. I take a bus to work every day, why can't they? Why is Mt. Pleasant considered inaccessible when the 42 bus runs one of the most frequent schedules in the book? I'd kill for 20 buses per hour in the morning rush.

LongtimeListener

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:33:19 -0500

Thank the Lord! I live in Dupont near Loriol Plaza and it takes upwards of an hour to find a parking space on a Friday or Saturday night. There really should be a system to ensure that residents can park before party-goers do.

monkeyrotica

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:18:08 -0500

You can get handicapped parking permit for a hangnail and menstrual cramps, if you pay the right people. It's a scam. Tell your doctor you have water on the brain and he'll fill out a handicapped permit for you.

dcguy20001

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:43:23 -0500

What I find (live over by U street) is that the parking enforcement is right there at 9:30 on street cleaning days but otherwise steer clear of the residential area. The street cleaning storm trooper ticket dispensers may have eased off now that the street cleaning trucks have cameras...I think.

yonas

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:17:46 -0500

Quite honestly, I never thought I'd say this, but they need to do 24-hour ticketing in Mt. Pleasant. It took me nearly 30 minutes to find a parking spot last night, thanks to all the a-holes with Virginia and Maryland plates hogging all of the Zone 1 spots. It's bullcrap and they need to be a hell of a lot more aggressive.

NotTheRedBaron

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:00:47 -0500

has anyone else noticed the rather large number of out of state cars (usually from MD) with seemingly bogus Handicap signs in windows? Usually the people I see getting in and out of those cars look more than able. Seems like some folks have found a friendly person to issue those stickers so that they can take advantage of the 4 hour parking granted to drivers with disabilities.

mcphale

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:52:15 -0500

why bother paying for a permit? until they started doing work on the lead pipes on my street, there was a car with maryland tags parked in the same spot for a couple of weeks. free parking courtesy of a lazy parking authority for everyone!