Parking no longer free on Saturdays in MoCo lots starting 7/8/23

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Anonymous wrote:The council is so good at figuring out new ways to take our money! This is on top of recently raising property tax rates and the recordation tax, of course.

"On or about July 8, 2023, Saturday payment will be required in garages and lots. Rates and hours requiring payment will be the same as the rest of the week."

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/DOT-Parking/FAQ/using-meters.html

Poor drivers. Won't someone think of the drivers?

Poor county council, nonprofits, snd community activists. Whatever will they do without more taxpayer money!!!? We gotta make sure they can eat!

Eh. "Free" parking subsidizes drivers and driving. End driver/driving subsidies.

End lunch subsidies, housing subsidies, electric power tool and car subsidies, solar panel subsidies, etc. etc.

End it all!

That's an unnuanced view of public policy. In the nuanced view, we subsidize behaviors/actions we want to encourage, and remove subsidies from behaviors/actions we don't want to encourage. We want to encourage kids having lunches, people having housing, and clean(er), local energy sources. We don't want to, and don't need to, encourage driving.

Which is why we make parking easier, so that local businesses thrive.

But this is moco, where the county does everything in its power to kill jobs, kill businesses, and stifle economic growth. No surprise.

No, when we make parking easier, we get a lot of roads, traffic congestion, parking lots, and car crashes, none of which contribute to economic vitality or help most local businesses. It's true that car crashes are good for car-repair, tow truck, and car-sales businesses, though.

Parking is very easy at Tysons, which tops Bethesda in terms of economic activity.

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Anonymous wrote:The only progressive nature in MoCo is to get progressively worse.

You want to be able to store your private car for free on public property? That sounds like socialism.

dp.. free? We already pay a lot in taxes.

So you support free buses and Metro?

for certain groups, I do, actually.

We already pay taxes on cars, gas. I'm ok paying a small amount for county parking, but I do think that MoCo likes to tax everything and anything, and also spend on dumb things.

Ok, then free parking for certain groups too.

Your car and gas taxes do not come near covering the costs of roads and parking. Most of that comes out of general revenue, which comes from everyone who pays taxes, which is everyone.

we also pay property tax. Homeowners and car owners pay more taxes than those who don't own homes or cars. And that's fine, but it's not like people who drive cars are getting more "free" services than those who don't.

Homeowners and car owners also use more services than renters and non-car-owners.

Not to mention the parking fees are really nominal ($2/hour). If you're not going somewhere because you would have to pay $2/hour to park, it's not about the money. I mean, I get it, I also feel emotionally (irrationally) like I shouldn't have to pay for parking, so I generally park at a distance and walk the rest of the way, if possible. Or I go by Metro or bus or bike. The rational reality is that, in lots of places in the county, we're not paying enough for parking. We should be paying a lot more.

NP and obviously this is anecdotal but I will use myself as an example. My DD loves to play at the play area in the mall in silver spring. We would go for the play area but then end up shopping at a few stores, grabbing lunch, maybe going to a movie if the weather was bad, farmer’s market, etc. I’m not going to choose that play area again because I don’t want to pay for parking. We’ll go to a playground instead.

You and your daughter enjoy going to downtown Silver Spring, but if you have to pay $1 an hour to store your car for a few hours, you'll stop doing this thing that you and your daughter enjoy.

Okey dokey.

Little things can add up to the point where choices have to be made. Maybe you are fortunate enough that it doesn’t matter to you, but that doesn’t mean it won’t matter to someone else. $2/week is $100/year. They might rather do something else with that $100, when her daughter could also enjoy playing at the playground for free. It will actually save them more, because they will no longer be spending money with the merchants there. The merchants might not appreciate it, but OP and her daughter can have lovely playtimes at the park, and spend their money elsewhere, where they don’t have to pay extra for the privilege.

"We would go for the play area but then end up shopping at a few stores, grabbing lunch, maybe going to a movie if the weather was bad, farmer’s market, etc." but $3 to store your car in a public parking garage for 3 hours will make all the difference in their family budget?

This is not about dollars and cents. This is about a basic belief that car storage should be free - you should never have to pay to store your car.

So if you believe that you should never have to pay to store your car, then ok, arrange your life so that you never have to pay to store your car. There are many different ways to achieve this goal:

1. don't have a car
2. take transit or walk or bike to places where you have to pay to park
3. park your car nearby and then take transit or walk the rest of the way
4. live in destination places (like downtown Silver Spring), so you don't have to go there because you are already there
5. avoid destination places

But the idea that parking should be free in downtown Bethesda or downtown Silver Spring or downtown Wheaton, because you personally only go to places where parking costs $0.00, and if you have to pay to park, you just won't go? Nope. That's terrible public policy. Bad for the places, bad for the county budget, and a disaster for our local and global environmental future.

I am one of the PPs and you seem to have really felt some type of way about my anecdotal statement. It doesn’t matter what you list, I don’t feel entitled to free parking. The free parking was what enticed me to Silver Spring. I will just go elsewhere for those amenities. And playgrounds. Some we will walk to, some we will metro to and some we will drive to (gasp). I don’t live in Moco so if the residents there don’t care if I stop patronizing their businesses, that’s fine with me.

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Anonymous wrote:The only progressive nature in MoCo is to get progressively worse.

You want to be able to store your private car for free on public property? That sounds like socialism.

dp.. free? We already pay a lot in taxes.

So you support free buses and Metro?

for certain groups, I do, actually.

We already pay taxes on cars, gas. I'm ok paying a small amount for county parking, but I do think that MoCo likes to tax everything and anything, and also spend on dumb things.

Ok, then free parking for certain groups too.

Your car and gas taxes do not come near covering the costs of roads and parking. Most of that comes out of general revenue, which comes from everyone who pays taxes, which is everyone.

we also pay property tax. Homeowners and car owners pay more taxes than those who don't own homes or cars. And that's fine, but it's not like people who drive cars are getting more "free" services than those who don't.

Homeowners and car owners also use more services than renters and non-car-owners.

Not to mention the parking fees are really nominal ($2/hour). If you're not going somewhere because you would have to pay $2/hour to park, it's not about the money. I mean, I get it, I also feel emotionally (irrationally) like I shouldn't have to pay for parking, so I generally park at a distance and walk the rest of the way, if possible. Or I go by Metro or bus or bike. The rational reality is that, in lots of places in the county, we're not paying enough for parking. We should be paying a lot more.

NP and obviously this is anecdotal but I will use myself as an example. My DD loves to play at the play area in the mall in silver spring. We would go for the play area but then end up shopping at a few stores, grabbing lunch, maybe going to a movie if the weather was bad, farmer’s market, etc. I’m not going to choose that play area again because I don’t want to pay for parking. We’ll go to a playground instead.

You and your daughter enjoy going to downtown Silver Spring, but if you have to pay $1 an hour to store your car for a few hours, you'll stop doing this thing that you and your daughter enjoy.

Okey dokey.

Little things can add up to the point where choices have to be made. Maybe you are fortunate enough that it doesn’t matter to you, but that doesn’t mean it won’t matter to someone else. $2/week is $100/year. They might rather do something else with that $100, when her daughter could also enjoy playing at the playground for free. It will actually save them more, because they will no longer be spending money with the merchants there. The merchants might not appreciate it, but OP and her daughter can have lovely playtimes at the park, and spend their money elsewhere, where they don’t have to pay extra for the privilege.

"We would go for the play area but then end up shopping at a few stores, grabbing lunch, maybe going to a movie if the weather was bad, farmer’s market, etc." but $3 to store your car in a public parking garage for 3 hours will make all the difference in their family budget?

This is not about dollars and cents. This is about a basic belief that car storage should be free - you should never have to pay to store your car.

So if you believe that you should never have to pay to store your car, then ok, arrange your life so that you never have to pay to store your car. There are many different ways to achieve this goal:

1. don't have a car
2. take transit or walk or bike to places where you have to pay to park
3. park your car nearby and then take transit or walk the rest of the way
4. live in destination places (like downtown Silver Spring), so you don't have to go there because you are already there
5. avoid destination places

But the idea that parking should be free in downtown Bethesda or downtown Silver Spring or downtown Wheaton, because you personally only go to places where parking costs $0.00, and if you have to pay to park, you just won't go? Nope. That's terrible public policy. Bad for the places, bad for the county budget, and a disaster for our local and global environmental future.

I am one of the PPs and you seem to have really felt some type of way about my anecdotal statement. It doesn’t matter what you list, I don’t feel entitled to free parking. The free parking was what enticed me to Silver Spring. I will just go elsewhere for those amenities. And playgrounds. Some we will walk to, some we will metro to and some we will drive to (gasp). I don’t live in Moco so if the residents there don’t care if I stop patronizing their businesses, that’s fine with me.

+1 MoCo doesn’t have anything that can be elsewhere with free parking.

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Anonymous wrote:The council is so good at figuring out new ways to take our money! This is on top of recently raising property tax rates and the recordation tax, of course.

"On or about July 8, 2023, Saturday payment will be required in garages and lots. Rates and hours requiring payment will be the same as the rest of the week."

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/DOT-Parking/FAQ/using-meters.html

Poor drivers. Won't someone think of the drivers?

Poor county council, nonprofits, snd community activists. Whatever will they do without more taxpayer money!!!? We gotta make sure they can eat!

Eh. "Free" parking subsidizes drivers and driving. End driver/driving subsidies.

End lunch subsidies, housing subsidies, electric power tool and car subsidies, solar panel subsidies, etc. etc.

End it all!

That's an unnuanced view of public policy. In the nuanced view, we subsidize behaviors/actions we want to encourage, and remove subsidies from behaviors/actions we don't want to encourage. We want to encourage kids having lunches, people having housing, and clean(er), local energy sources. We don't want to, and don't need to, encourage driving.

Honestly, you sound so privileged. You sound like a rich brat to me. I grew up dirt poor here in Montgomery County with my parents not owning a car. We took the bus everywhere and it took hours of our lives to get to work, to get to school, to get groceries and basic necessities. It took two hours every morning to get to work because of bus transfers. To get home from the grocery store, with everybody, holding two bags of groceries, it would take us about 40 minutes. As soon as my parents could scrape up enough money to buy a car, they did, and it vastly improved our lives. So get off your high horse, talking about walking and taking the bus everywhere.

I don't drive, my taxes shouldn't pay for your free parking, you rich, entitled brat.

And I’ve always said that extreme left-wing and extreme right wingers are different sides of the same coin. Right wingers don’t want to pay or have their tax money go towards abortion, welfare, or any kind of social services the same way extreme left wingers don’t want to pay for “ car storage” or public roads.
It makes me laugh the whole lot of them.
They are all the same brand of crazy.

This is SO true. Both nuts.

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Anonymous wrote:The council is so good at figuring out new ways to take our money! This is on top of recently raising property tax rates and the recordation tax, of course.

"On or about July 8, 2023, Saturday payment will be required in garages and lots. Rates and hours requiring payment will be the same as the rest of the week."

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/DOT-Parking/FAQ/using-meters.html

Poor drivers. Won't someone think of the drivers?

Poor county council, nonprofits, snd community activists. Whatever will they do without more taxpayer money!!!? We gotta make sure they can eat!

Eh. "Free" parking subsidizes drivers and driving. End driver/driving subsidies.

End lunch subsidies, housing subsidies, electric power tool and car subsidies, solar panel subsidies, etc. etc.

End it all!

That's an unnuanced view of public policy. In the nuanced view, we subsidize behaviors/actions we want to encourage, and remove subsidies from behaviors/actions we don't want to encourage. We want to encourage kids having lunches, people having housing, and clean(er), local energy sources. We don't want to, and don't need to, encourage driving.

Which is why we make parking easier, so that local businesses thrive.

But this is moco, where the county does everything in its power to kill jobs, kill businesses, and stifle economic growth. No surprise.

Gee I guess that's why NYC has so many failed businesses - no parking!

Moco isnt nyc. Wow, is stupid are you? Where’s our subway system with the most stops in the world like NYC? Really, really piss poor comparison and logic on your part.

I think we are arguing with a teenager in high school, lol.

Not to mention that NYC is actually really struggling right now.

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Anonymous wrote:The council is so good at figuring out new ways to take our money! This is on top of recently raising property tax rates and the recordation tax, of course.

"On or about July 8, 2023, Saturday payment will be required in garages and lots. Rates and hours requiring payment will be the same as the rest of the week."

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/DOT-Parking/FAQ/using-meters.html

Poor drivers. Won't someone think of the drivers?

Poor county council, nonprofits, snd community activists. Whatever will they do without more taxpayer money!!!? We gotta make sure they can eat!

Eh. "Free" parking subsidizes drivers and driving. End driver/driving subsidies.

End lunch subsidies, housing subsidies, electric power tool and car subsidies, solar panel subsidies, etc. etc.

End it all!

That's an unnuanced view of public policy. In the nuanced view, we subsidize behaviors/actions we want to encourage, and remove subsidies from behaviors/actions we don't want to encourage. We want to encourage kids having lunches, people having housing, and clean(er), local energy sources. We don't want to, and don't need to, encourage driving.

Which is why we make parking easier, so that local businesses thrive.

But this is moco, where the county does everything in its power to kill jobs, kill businesses, and stifle economic growth. No surprise.

Gee I guess that's why NYC has so many failed businesses - no parking!

Moco isnt nyc. Wow, is stupid are you? Where’s our subway system with the most stops in the world like NYC? Really, really piss poor comparison and logic on your part.

I think we are arguing with a teenager in high school, lol.

Not to mention that NYC is actually really struggling right now.

Not to mention that people moved to Rockville/Montgomery County because they wanted the suburban lifestyle. If they wanted an urban lifestyle, they would have moved to DC, New York, or sone other urban center. If you want to live in a community where driving is so difficult that people are more dependent on public transportation, you could certainly move to one of those places, rather than railing at them for treating the suburbs like the suburbs and trying to make driving so miserable here they give it up. Alternatively, you could try to come up with an alternative that is so great, people want to drive less. (Personally, I think facilitating and incentivizing work from home would be the place to start for reducing automobile usage).

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Anonymous wrote:The council is so good at figuring out new ways to take our money! This is on top of recently raising property tax rates and the recordation tax, of course.

"On or about July 8, 2023, Saturday payment will be required in garages and lots. Rates and hours requiring payment will be the same as the rest of the week."

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/DOT-Parking/FAQ/using-meters.html

Poor drivers. Won't someone think of the drivers?

Poor county council, nonprofits, snd community activists. Whatever will they do without more taxpayer money!!!? We gotta make sure they can eat!

Eh. "Free" parking subsidizes drivers and driving. End driver/driving subsidies.

End lunch subsidies, housing subsidies, electric power tool and car subsidies, solar panel subsidies, etc. etc.

End it all!

That's an unnuanced view of public policy. In the nuanced view, we subsidize behaviors/actions we want to encourage, and remove subsidies from behaviors/actions we don't want to encourage. We want to encourage kids having lunches, people having housing, and clean(er), local energy sources. We don't want to, and don't need to, encourage driving.

Which is why we make parking easier, so that local businesses thrive.

But this is moco, where the county does everything in its power to kill jobs, kill businesses, and stifle economic growth. No surprise.

No, when we make parking easier, we get a lot of roads, traffic congestion, parking lots, and car crashes, none of which contribute to economic vitality or help most local businesses. It's true that car crashes are good for car-repair, tow truck, and car-sales businesses, though.

Parking is very easy at Tysons, which tops Bethesda in terms of economic activity.

Stay on your side of the bridge. You voted for it after all.

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Anonymous wrote:The council is so good at figuring out new ways to take our money! This is on top of recently raising property tax rates and the recordation tax, of course.

"On or about July 8, 2023, Saturday payment will be required in garages and lots. Rates and hours requiring payment will be the same as the rest of the week."

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/DOT-Parking/FAQ/using-meters.html

Poor drivers. Won't someone think of the drivers?

Poor county council, nonprofits, snd community activists. Whatever will they do without more taxpayer money!!!? We gotta make sure they can eat!

Eh. "Free" parking subsidizes drivers and driving. End driver/driving subsidies.

End lunch subsidies, housing subsidies, electric power tool and car subsidies, solar panel subsidies, etc. etc.

End it all!

That's an unnuanced view of public policy. In the nuanced view, we subsidize behaviors/actions we want to encourage, and remove subsidies from behaviors/actions we don't want to encourage. We want to encourage kids having lunches, people having housing, and clean(er), local energy sources. We don't want to, and don't need to, encourage driving.

Which is why we make parking easier, so that local businesses thrive.

But this is moco, where the county does everything in its power to kill jobs, kill businesses, and stifle economic growth. No surprise.

No, when we make parking easier, we get a lot of roads, traffic congestion, parking lots, and car crashes, none of which contribute to economic vitality or help most local businesses. It's true that car crashes are good for car-repair, tow truck, and car-sales businesses, though.

Parking is very easy at Tysons, which tops Bethesda in terms of economic activity.

Stay on your side of the bridge. You voted for it after all.

Unfortunately I have to cross the bridge because my employer moved there and there are no jobs for me hrrr.

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Anonymous wrote:The council is so good at figuring out new ways to take our money! This is on top of recently raising property tax rates and the recordation tax, of course.

"On or about July 8, 2023, Saturday payment will be required in garages and lots. Rates and hours requiring payment will be the same as the rest of the week."

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/DOT-Parking/FAQ/using-meters.html

Poor drivers. Won't someone think of the drivers?

Poor county council, nonprofits, snd community activists. Whatever will they do without more taxpayer money!!!? We gotta make sure they can eat!

Eh. "Free" parking subsidizes drivers and driving. End driver/driving subsidies.

End lunch subsidies, housing subsidies, electric power tool and car subsidies, solar panel subsidies, etc. etc.

End it all!

That's an unnuanced view of public policy. In the nuanced view, we subsidize behaviors/actions we want to encourage, and remove subsidies from behaviors/actions we don't want to encourage. We want to encourage kids having lunches, people having housing, and clean(er), local energy sources. We don't want to, and don't need to, encourage driving.

Which is why we make parking easier, so that local businesses thrive.

But this is moco, where the county does everything in its power to kill jobs, kill businesses, and stifle economic growth. No surprise.

No, when we make parking easier, we get a lot of roads, traffic congestion, parking lots, and car crashes, none of which contribute to economic vitality or help most local businesses. It's true that car crashes are good for car-repair, tow truck, and car-sales businesses, though.

Parking is very easy at Tysons, which tops Bethesda in terms of economic activity.

Tysons has a lot of roads, traffic congestion, parking lots, and car crashes.

[Anonymous]

Ugh - Moco keeps getting worse and worse.

The congestion, taxes, poor services, terrible urban planning, bizarre anti-car fever, bureaucracy....all going in the wrong direction.

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Nearly 83% of MoCo residents have a driver’s license and nearly 72% drive solo or carpool to work. MoCo is a car-centric suburban county. Charging parking on weekends is simply an additional tax on MoCo residents because places like Bethesda, Silver Spring, and Wheaton don’t have anything that can’t be found elsewhere.

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Anonymous wrote:The council is so good at figuring out new ways to take our money! This is on top of recently raising property tax rates and the recordation tax, of course.

"On or about July 8, 2023, Saturday payment will be required in garages and lots. Rates and hours requiring payment will be the same as the rest of the week."

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/DOT-Parking/FAQ/using-meters.html

Poor drivers. Won't someone think of the drivers?

Poor county council, nonprofits, snd community activists. Whatever will they do without more taxpayer money!!!? We gotta make sure they can eat!

Eh. "Free" parking subsidizes drivers and driving. End driver/driving subsidies.

End lunch subsidies, housing subsidies, electric power tool and car subsidies, solar panel subsidies, etc. etc.

End it all!

That's an unnuanced view of public policy. In the nuanced view, we subsidize behaviors/actions we want to encourage, and remove subsidies from behaviors/actions we don't want to encourage. We want to encourage kids having lunches, people having housing, and clean(er), local energy sources. We don't want to, and don't need to, encourage driving.

Which is why we make parking easier, so that local businesses thrive.

But this is moco, where the county does everything in its power to kill jobs, kill businesses, and stifle economic growth. No surprise.

No, when we make parking easier, we get a lot of roads, traffic congestion, parking lots, and car crashes, none of which contribute to economic vitality or help most local businesses. It's true that car crashes are good for car-repair, tow truck, and car-sales businesses, though.

Parking is very easy at Tysons, which tops Bethesda in terms of economic activity.

Tysons has a lot of roads, traffic congestion, parking lots, and car crashes.

And so does MoCo.

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Anonymous wrote:Nearly 83% of MoCo residents have a driver’s license and nearly 72% drive solo or carpool to work. MoCo is a car-centric suburban county. Charging parking on weekends is simply an additional tax on MoCo residents because places like Bethesda, Silver Spring, and Wheaton don’t have anything that can’t be found elsewhere.

Montgomery County is car-dependent, and we shouldn't do anything to change that!

-you

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Anonymous wrote:The council is so good at figuring out new ways to take our money! This is on top of recently raising property tax rates and the recordation tax, of course.

"On or about July 8, 2023, Saturday payment will be required in garages and lots. Rates and hours requiring payment will be the same as the rest of the week."

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/DOT-Parking/FAQ/using-meters.html

Poor drivers. Won't someone think of the drivers?

Poor county council, nonprofits, snd community activists. Whatever will they do without more taxpayer money!!!? We gotta make sure they can eat!

Eh. "Free" parking subsidizes drivers and driving. End driver/driving subsidies.

End lunch subsidies, housing subsidies, electric power tool and car subsidies, solar panel subsidies, etc. etc.

End it all!

That's an unnuanced view of public policy. In the nuanced view, we subsidize behaviors/actions we want to encourage, and remove subsidies from behaviors/actions we don't want to encourage. We want to encourage kids having lunches, people having housing, and clean(er), local energy sources. We don't want to, and don't need to, encourage driving.

Which is why we make parking easier, so that local businesses thrive.

But this is moco, where the county does everything in its power to kill jobs, kill businesses, and stifle economic growth. No surprise.

No, when we make parking easier, we get a lot of roads, traffic congestion, parking lots, and car crashes, none of which contribute to economic vitality or help most local businesses. It's true that car crashes are good for car-repair, tow truck, and car-sales businesses, though.

Parking is very easy at Tysons, which tops Bethesda in terms of economic activity.

Is there free parking at Tyson's?

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Anonymous wrote:Nearly 83% of MoCo residents have a driver’s license and nearly 72% drive solo or carpool to work. MoCo is a car-centric suburban county. Charging parking on weekends is simply an additional tax on MoCo residents because places like Bethesda, Silver Spring, and Wheaton don’t have anything that can’t be found elsewhere.

Montgomery County is car-dependent, and we shouldn't do anything to change that!

-you

Yep!! And there’s nothing wrong with that.