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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1) It's a relatively tiny area of NW.
2) The $8/hour is only from 6pm-3am (ie, nightlife time)
3) [b]The purpose is to encourage street parking spots to turn over frequently, which I am all for.[/b]

Street parking should be expensive and, in high demand zones, it should primarily serve people who want to park for an hour or less. If you're coming for a night out? Find a garage.[/quote]

So we're going to require people who are getting completely hammered in bars to move their car frequently because they will be worried about the meter, and then they will have to drive around for 45 minutes (while inebriated) looking for a new parking spot. What could possibly go wrong? [/quote]

Um.. or perhaps maybe, just hear me out now, just maybe, those people "getting hammered" at bars could choose to arrive at their location in a way that's (hopefully) similar to their departure plan - by not driving themselves there?[/quote]

Sure, it's called having a designated driver, and not everyone is coming to drink.  sometimes people come to visit friends/family or shop, pickup food, etc. We have elderly family in DC and have to park near their building.  We also come with friends and one of us doesn't drink, we carpool together. DC also relies on people from the entire metro to support its businesses.  If DC government think they can make parking as expensive as Manhattan, they are high on something. [/quote]

All those people carpooling somewhere to spend money (except not on parking, that's unaffordable).[/quote]

Do you not understand how making metered and garage parking more expensive will reduce available non-metered spots too? People will avoid metered spots even more leading to shortage of non metered spots.  Or are you suggesting that all streets in DC are converted to paid parking at this rate? Then you can expect DC residents themselves to be pissed when their prices for services rise (because of commuter workers) and their relatives and friends no longer want to visit.  It's like placing a toll on entering DC area except DC area isn't NYC or Rome or some mobbed European town with tiny streets inundated by tourists with no place to walk. If anything DC can use more people[/quote]

If current DC truly residents can’t pay these new parking rates, then just let them move to Maryland.

Problem solved!

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Encouraging more DC residents to leave DC and discouraging non-DC residents to venture into the city for entertainment does not seem like a sound economic development strategy. But what do I know? I’m not an expert at DDOT or an internet radical urbanist. [/quote]

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