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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just wanted to note that La Cosecha has a large parking garage underneath it where you can park for free for the first three hours. It is also used as overflow parking for Union Market.

Every large building being built in the Union Market area has a parking garage, there is zero reason to rely on street parking there. Eventually they'll get rid of the lot at UM to build another building there (with underground parking). Also eventually none of the parking in that neighborhood will be free unless you are shopping at Trader Joe's.

This is how urban development works.[/quote]
Surface parking lots and then above ground garages are more highly preferred than underground garages from a consumer standpoint. All of the surface lots at Pike and Rose fill first before the garages. In downtown Bethesda, the above ground lots fill before the underground lots which never fill. People will circle the garage in Bethesda Row for 15 minutes and not even consider parking in the underground garage just around the corner that has 700 spaces. [/quote]

This is truly maddening behavior by drivers. They will circle, they will park in a bus stop/bike lane/fire hydrant zone, throw on their flashers in a travel lane for thirty minutes when a free or cheap garage is right there to use.

What is even going through their heads? Do they not know about the garage? [/quote]

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