If you live in Alexandria City, I'm coming for your street parked cars. Move them or else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, you should just go about setting parked cars on fire.

It’s what kids are doing in our neighborhood. You could probably get away with it too. Police certainly aren’t interested in finding them. They didn’t even want to bother looking at our Ring video, even though you could see them plain as day. They simply do not care.

Nah, because then they'd get a nice insurance payout. I'd rather them get ticket after ticket after ticket. Or better yet, sell some of the cars they hardly ever use.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does Alexandria have a private car park where people could rent long term spaces? Seems like it is needed given the lack of driveways in Old Town.

It's not just Old Town, but Rosemont, Del Ray, and other dense areas of Alexandria where street space is limited, yet people think the street is a great place to hold on to Dad's truck even though he died and the car is falling apart and no one drives it and it keeps failing inspection.

[Anonymous]

I’m following this post! Some good $hit.

[Anonymous]

Aren’t there elderly people who may have cars parked, but don’t leave their homes often? There’s hound be exemptions made for elderly and disabled. They should have convenient access to their cars when they do leave the house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does Alexandria have a private car park where people could rent long term spaces? Seems like it is needed given the lack of driveways in Old Town.

funny, they won't move their cars for more than a few weeks, they sure as heck are not gonna pay to have their car parked in some lot miles from the home, where it would be ripe for the picking for vandals and thieves... and also would likely incur higher insurance rates since its not being garaged at the domicile

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I'm sure residents of those historic row homes had 3 vehicles back in the day.

then dont buy a house you can't all your crap in...

[Anonymous]

OP, you are my people.

I live in DC, just north of Georgetown. I use the DC311 app to report cars all the time. I was walking my baby yesterday and multiple homes in Georgetown had cars parked in front of their garages, blocking the sidewalk. I had to push my stroller into the street to get around.

I whipped out my phone and reported them. DC park patrol wrote up two tickets for illegally blocking the sidewalk within 45 minutes. It was glorious. The app even notified me when the officers wrote the tickets and closed my reports! Such a satisfying feeling.

We often have Georgetown students parking their out-of-state vehicles on our block, usually for weeks at a time. In the middle of the night, I'll walk down our one block and report 10-12 out-of-state vehicles. Parking enforcement loves me, because they can ticket so many cars with just 10 minutes of work. The cars will be blanketed with pink tickets in the morning, unless the students have properly registered and paid for out-of-state exemptions (it's not cheap - like $300 per 90 days). I want to motivate them to register their vehicles in DC and pay their share of road fees.

No apologies, I'll cut a b#tch who dumps a car in my neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, you are my people.

I live in DC, just north of Georgetown. I use the DC311 app to report cars all the time. I was walking my baby yesterday and multiple homes in Georgetown had cars parked in front of their garages, blocking the sidewalk. I had to push my stroller into the street to get around.

I whipped out my phone and reported them. DC park patrol wrote up two tickets for illegally blocking the sidewalk within 45 minutes. It was glorious. The app even notified me when the officers wrote the tickets and closed my reports! Such a satisfying feeling.

We often have Georgetown students parking their out-of-state vehicles on our block, usually for weeks at a time. In the middle of the night, I'll walk down our one block and report 10-12 out-of-state vehicles. Parking enforcement loves me, because they can ticket so many cars with just 10 minutes of work. The cars will be blanketed with pink tickets in the morning, unless the students have properly registered and paid for out-of-state exemptions (it's not cheap - like $300 per 90 days). I want to motivate them to register their vehicles in DC and pay their share of road fees.

No apologies, I'll cut a b#tch who dumps a car in my neighborhood.

Thanks Karen

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You’re entirely correct, but not going far enough. Why do we allow public land (the street) to be used to store private property (cars) practically for free? If you buy a car it should be on YOU to find and pay for a private place to store it. Either that or parking permits should cost $1000s to better reflect the actual costs they impose on society.

This is how they do it in Japan. You can’t park on a public street overnight.

I'm sure the historic commission would love people adding garages to historic row houses

I'm sure residents of those historic row homes had 3 vehicles back in the day.

3 horses perhaps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, you are my people.

I live in DC, just north of Georgetown. I use the DC311 app to report cars all the time. I was walking my baby yesterday and multiple homes in Georgetown had cars parked in front of their garages, blocking the sidewalk. I had to push my stroller into the street to get around.

I whipped out my phone and reported them. DC park patrol wrote up two tickets for illegally blocking the sidewalk within 45 minutes. It was glorious. The app even notified me when the officers wrote the tickets and closed my reports! Such a satisfying feeling.

We often have Georgetown students parking their out-of-state vehicles on our block, usually for weeks at a time. In the middle of the night, I'll walk down our one block and report 10-12 out-of-state vehicles. Parking enforcement loves me, because they can ticket so many cars with just 10 minutes of work. The cars will be blanketed with pink tickets in the morning, unless the students have properly registered and paid for out-of-state exemptions (it's not cheap - like $300 per 90 days). I want to motivate them to register their vehicles in DC and pay their share of road fees.

No apologies, I'll cut a b#tch who dumps a car in my neighborhood.

Thanks Karen

Thanks for padding the city budget! Takes pressure off taxpayers, like me.

Anyone who gets a ticket is just paying The Stupid Tax.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, you are my people.

I live in DC, just north of Georgetown. I use the DC311 app to report cars all the time. I was walking my baby yesterday and multiple homes in Georgetown had cars parked in front of their garages, blocking the sidewalk. I had to push my stroller into the street to get around.

I whipped out my phone and reported them. DC park patrol wrote up two tickets for illegally blocking the sidewalk within 45 minutes. It was glorious. The app even notified me when the officers wrote the tickets and closed my reports! Such a satisfying feeling.

We often have Georgetown students parking their out-of-state vehicles on our block, usually for weeks at a time. In the middle of the night, I'll walk down our one block and report 10-12 out-of-state vehicles. Parking enforcement loves me, because they can ticket so many cars with just 10 minutes of work. The cars will be blanketed with pink tickets in the morning, unless the students have properly registered and paid for out-of-state exemptions (it's not cheap - like $300 per 90 days). I want to motivate them to register their vehicles in DC and pay their share of road fees.

No apologies, I'll cut a b#tch who dumps a car in my neighborhood.

Can’t wait until your kids go to college out of state to see if you actually re-register your car there. Hahahahahaha

[Anonymous]

I just want people to move their cars off the Washington Street No parking zones during morning and afternoon rush. It makes the streets so much safer for when cars aren’t jockeying back and forth because someone can’t move their car by 7am on a Wednesday.

OP, these dedicated parker’s are the same people whose cars get towed prior to a parade and then sit near Jones Point for a week after because the owner didn’t realize the car was gone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, you are my people.

I live in DC, just north of Georgetown. I use the DC311 app to report cars all the time. I was walking my baby yesterday and multiple homes in Georgetown had cars parked in front of their garages, blocking the sidewalk. I had to push my stroller into the street to get around.

I whipped out my phone and reported them. DC park patrol wrote up two tickets for illegally blocking the sidewalk within 45 minutes. It was glorious. The app even notified me when the officers wrote the tickets and closed my reports! Such a satisfying feeling.

We often have Georgetown students parking their out-of-state vehicles on our block, usually for weeks at a time. In the middle of the night, I'll walk down our one block and report 10-12 out-of-state vehicles. Parking enforcement loves me, because they can ticket so many cars with just 10 minutes of work. The cars will be blanketed with pink tickets in the morning, unless the students have properly registered and paid for out-of-state exemptions (it's not cheap - like $300 per 90 days). I want to motivate them to register their vehicles in DC and pay their share of road fees.

No apologies, I'll cut a b#tch who dumps a car in my neighborhood.

Can’t wait until your kids go to college out of state to see if you actually re-register your car there. Hahahahahaha

What college kid needs a freaking car in Washington, DC? It's asinine.

[Anonymous]

OP here with an update. 3 of the worst offending vehicles are now gone, have not seen them for a month. They belonged to residents, who would often leave them as street litter.

But they're gone - hallelujah! If you're fed up with obnoxious street parking in your neighborhood, I encourage you to form a parking enforcement telethon with some of your fellow annoyed neighbors, or just report them yourself. Again. And again. And again. People that use street parking as their personal parking lot or garage are selfish and deserve all the tickets they can get.