Council needs to BAN food trucks around the Mall

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My DS CANNOT eat that food, please have some kind of compassion.

This is a terrible reason to ban all food trucks. Do you see how self-centered it is?

That’s a troll.

Says the troll

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm really annoyed at the busted up cars that they use to save the spots overnight too. Those cars are just covered in parking tickets and boots and they are really beat up.

I love food trucks normally, but these food trucks on the mall are a blight. Nasty food, nasty old trucks, pollution and they're expensive. I also don't like the tacky souvenir stands too. Plus that's like 100 less parking spots for everyone else.

If they are booted, how are they using those spots?

[Anonymous]

If Dulles can give out a monopoly on taxis, then they can sell licenses to operate on the mall. Perhaps they should set up a committee to ensure different types as well as make money.
Of course paying the committee members will cost even more.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My issue is not the quality of food but the sheer amount of food trucks now. There are so many. The idle and pollute, on the weekends they take up all the parking spots. And now they’re even on the inside of the mall. They make so much noise and so much pollution.

I liked having some food trucks because it was fun to try different foods but now it’s the same crappy food over and over again.

Dc went from one extreme, just having a couple of hot dog carts allowed, to the deep end of miles of food trucks.

This! We were down on the mall for the first time in a while this past weekend and DH and I were wondering if there had always been that many food trucks, but now I feel vindicated that there are way more than there used to be. And sometimes 4-5 ice cream trucks- selling the exact same items- lined up next to eachother. But yeah the smell from the exhaust is terrible and the options were pretty crappy.

The food trucks have always been there, even back in the Tourmobile days. It’s better now that you have more choice than hot dogs. And the food trucks are also a bit of an aesthetic shift from when the mall was littered with T-Shirt vendors selling pop rocks, whoopi cushions and switch blade combs.

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Junk cars as holders are a problem. This is a story about it from a couple of years ago.

https://wjla.com/news/local/dc-regulate-assigned-spots-lottery-food-trucks-junk-cars

[Anonymous]

It’s a federal matter

[Anonymous]

Definitely a federal matter but regulation of food trucks is needed

[Anonymous]

ROFL. If you don’t like their offerings, don’t buy them. No one is getting “BANNED.” Yay, capitalism!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DS CANNOT eat that food, please have some kind of compassion.

SO DON’T EAT IT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Definitely a federal matter but regulation of food trucks is needed

They should be regulated but also traffic enforcement should be out ticketing and towing. These trucks are illegally parked, they block fire hydrants, Block entrances and exits and park in handicap spots.

[Anonymous]

DCRA has paid lip service to limiting food trucks to designated vending zones on the Mall with a lottery system, just as it does elsewhere throughout the city. Perhaps there’s an issue in terms of a turf battle with NPS over regulating public space. And DPW doesn’t make much of an effort to enforce parking restrictions, including the junk cars with Marylsndcsnd Virginia tags parked overnite to reserve spaces.

The food truck association has been spreading around some campaign dollars and bought friends in the Wilson Building. Meanwhile visitors to the Mall experience unsightly view sheds from the Capitol to the Washington Monument, overflowing garbage cans, rat infestations, noise and exhaust from generators, cringey music and blocked crosswalks. It’s a blight on the monumental core of the nation’s capital. The hands-off approach of the regulatory agencies has resulted in chaos stemming from a vacuum of enforcement. Vendors understand there will be no consequence to flouting the law except for the occasional $30 parking ticket they’ll pay as a cost of doing business.

Hardly the most pressing issue but does the city have the need for 15 ice cream trucks and 12 hotdog trucks on 14th Street, none of which are registered in DC? If memories serve me, souvenir vendors used to be restricted to Independence and Constitution Avenues, with a few along 15th and 18th north of Constitution.

[Anonymous]

Agree. I hate the cacophony of tinkly music some of them play ad nauseum. They should at least keep quiet. ‏עם ישראל חי

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Oops!! Sorrry about that^^

[Anonymous]

I do like SOME food trucks. However, they are out of control. Particularly around the Mall.
I understand they generate employment and some of them are now established business. That’s great.
But there has to be a balance. They seem to be taking over many public spaces.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DS CANNOT eat that food, please have some kind of compassion.

Why should anyone care? I could be mistaken but I believe there are other places in the world to get food.