The Golden Triangle Business Improvement District is soliciting entries for its annual bike rack design competition. Winner gets a cash stipend; more importantly, the we get a snazzy new place to park our bikes. more ›

There's a very slim chance you'll get a ticket if you use pay-by-phone app Parkmobile, insist company officials. more ›

The District's new Parkmobile app, which allows you to use your smart phone to pay for parking, is awesome. Except for when it doesn't stop you from getting a parking ticket. more ›

Via Greater Greater Washington, Twitter user @nikki_d caught Councilmember Vincent Orange (D-At Large) parking his white Cadillac SUV in the 15th Street NW bike lane on New Year's Day. more ›

Back on November 4, we noted an incredibly unusual occurrence in which an entire string of parked cars along the 1000 block of Euclid Street were totally smashed to bits, leaving police baffled as to what exactly happened. We finally got a chance to take a look at the preliminary police report of the incident, and boy, is it a whopper. more ›

Hey, a whole bunch of the city has the day off tomorrow! (Our regards to those who don't.) more ›

As more and more people in the District ride their bikes to work, there has been a small but growing move towards creating and installing creative and neighborhood-defining bike racks. more ›

If you live in a part of the District where street-sweepers force you to engage in a weekly ballet of car-moving before you head off to work, you'll be able to rest easy as of next week -- the city's street-sweeping program goes into hibernation on October 31. more ›

It may be a day to celebrate food, but that doesn't mean that local parking enforcement is taking things easy. more ›

Join the parking revolution, people -- everyone is paying by phone these days. more ›

Next time you contest a parking ticket, you might want to think twice about pretending that the violation you're accused of didn't happen -- the District might have photographic evidence that it did. more ›

In other, somewhat less obvious budget gap-related news: the District Department of Motor Vehicles will be raising rates on some transactions, including fees for residential parking permits and change of address requests. more ›

Am I allowed to hand those parking meter receipts to someone else if there's still time left on it? Indeed you can. We explain. more ›

While a LivingSocial deal might hit Zipcar's bottom line (which has never been great), making money isn't really the point. more ›

Originally, the District's Department of Motor Vehicles -- currently offering amnesty from late fees to those with long-outstanding tickets -- was going to stop honoring requests from residents curious about whether they had tickets that would qualify for amnesty today. But the agency has announced that, given the success of the program so far, they'll extend the free research service through September 9. more ›

If you're the holder of one (or several) of the thousands of unpaid parking tickets issued by the District of Columbia before January 1, 2010, you can pay it (or them) without any late fees starting today. more ›

Drivers owe the District of Columbia over $245 million in unpaid parking tickets. The city would really like to get some of that money back, naturally. So beginning August 1, the city's Department of Motor Vehicles will be suspending penalties on outstanding tickets to encourage people to pay up. more ›

To add to the weekend's transit woes, the IMF/World Bank's annual spring meetings begin today. And you know what that means -- street closures and parking restrictions! more ›

In case it's slipped your mind, tomorrow marks the observation of Emancipation Day in the District -- which means that most of the city's workers will be taking the day off. more ›

You might be able to take Metro during a government shutdown, but a bevy of other city services that Washington residents usually take for granted would grind to a halt. more ›

When it comes to fleet management, the hits just keep coming for the District: WAMU's Patrick Madden reports that vehicles operated by the District's Department of Public Works, which is responsible for issuing tickets to illegally parked vehicles around the city, have -- wait for it -- racked up $30,000 in outstanding citations and fees of their own. Oooooh, can you feel the Morissetteian irony? more ›

Last month, we highlighted the city's new, clearer street sweeping signage -- and while those signs indicated that the District's sweeping would begin on March 1, we weren't sure when the Department of Public Works would actually start handing out tickets to people who don't move their cars. Now we know! Monday, March 21 is the first day that you can earn a citation for failing to move your chariot on the appropriate day and time. more ›

The weather gods' decision to reward us for surviving last February's snowpocalypse with some absolutely glorious weather this month has us thinking spring. And you know what that means: street sweeping season is nigh! more ›

Did you know that commercial office, retail and service buildings in Washington are required by law to provide at least ten percent of the number of car parking spaces for bike parking? (For example, if a development had 100 parking spaces, they would be required to have at least 10 places for people to park a bike.) It's true -- the Bicycle Commuter and Parking Expansion Act of 2007, which passed the Council in November of that year, issued such requirements for the storage of two-wheeled conveyances at buildings around D.C. Not that it's really mattered, though: the bill didn't actually include any way for the city to enforce such parking minimums. more ›

Brace yourself: the first Walmart rendering is out, and it actually looks...good. In addition to reporting on the retail behemoth's concession "to consider an array of layouts, designs and parking arrangements," the Post's Jonathan O'Connell did the internets a favor yesterday and shared three high-quality renderings of the proposed Walmart which would be constructed at 801 New Jersey Avenue NW. more ›

Today, interim WMATA General Manager Richard Sarles passed along some distressing news for those who use Metro to commute to work in the District every day: allocations for pre-tax SmartBenefits maximums are about to be cut, nearly in half. Due to changes mandated by the federal government, the maximum allowable monthly allocation will decrease from $230 to $120 and commuters will no longer be able to bunch transit and parking benefits together. The change will go into effect on January 1, 2011. more ›