This weekend was certainly a test for the Adams Morgan-18th Street lack-of-parking experiment. The heat, humidity, coupled with the new restrictions for sure frustrated outsiders looking to find a parking space on 18th Street NW, seen here in this photo posted by FurCafe in DCist Photos. As the Post reported last week, the restrictions are part of a pilot program where on Friday and Saturday nights through September, parking is prohibited in the southbound curb lane of 18th Street between Columbia and Kalorama roads. The intent is to unclog the late-night traffic mess — which is normally a mix of tetchy cabbies, tacky white rented limos and jubilant floosies running across the thoroughfare for jumbo slice — so emergency vehicles, buses and others can better make their way through the nightclub and bar corridor between Columbia Road and U Street.

As DCist has already mentioned, the city and neighborhood interests in Adams Morgan and Woodley Park are looking at ways to improve transportation and access on both sides of the Duke Ellington Bridge. Also coming down the pike is the routing of a potential light-rail line on 18th Street in a crosstown line connecting American University with the city’s Southeast quadrant.

So now if you drive to Adams Morgan, the elimination of the parking on 18th Street will add to the crunch elsewhere, which for sure frustrates you. As a public service, we here at DCist want to inform you of alternate ways of getting to Adams Morgan: metrobus. We use it all the time.

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