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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Giving teachers free RPP permits to park in residential areas near schools sounds appealing, but it raises questions: First, it encourages more driving when other public policies are to encourage transit use, ride sharing, etc. Granted some teachers may have no choice but to drive, but handing out free RPP passes will just encourage more car use. Second, if teachers get free RPPs, who else "deserves" them? The school custodians? Why not. Cops? Sure. Fire fighters? Absolutely. Sanitation workers? Uh, well. DMV bureaucrats? Maybe not. And for residents who live in the vicinity of a school, etc. where employees have free street parking will find that the RPP program no longer works for them as they have to park blocks from their homes. So the best solution is to provide on-site (underground if possible) parking and then control (or require a needs based showing) for employees who get the parking. And charge them something for using it.[/quote]

And quotes like this are why I can always talk about DC education policies with my friends in other cities and laugh at you all. (And I guess me, since we are here.)

Let's go over that logic again!

Giving out FREE parking only encourages MORE parking! But building an underground parking garage, like Janney has. (All schools must have what Janney has, because. Reasons.) But spending millions of dollars for UNDERGROUND parking, would not create an incentive for people to drive!

And, if you are mean and won't give us the underground parking, then obviously, you should not whine when we pave over your preK play area.

--Crazy Shepherd poster, who will at this time, mention again that Shepherd's renovation put a second floor kiln on a 50s building (actually I think they just finished driving in the steel support beams necessary), and built an atrium. And cost 30 million dollars, did no work over the summer because... I think someone forgot to put in the permits? And also did not manage to build a cafeteria. That is without the underground parking though.

Apparently cafeterias are a lot more expensive than atriums, kilns, and parking lots.

Seriously, I only worked as an auditor for a brief period of time, and I have no experience with government contracts, but I really don't know how people who defend this crap can sleep at night. [/quote]

I guess while you were frothing, you missed the logic of the PP?
PP seems to be arguing that deciding who gets to park is a problem, but once you've made a decision about who gets to park, providing those spaces via an underground garage makes the most sense.

I think the better approach is to incentivize public transit or carpooling. Not just paying for public transit and giving out gas cards, but things like prime parking spots for carpoolers, and giftcards for itunes and running shoes and commuter bags for the public transit riders. Walkers and bikers should also be attractively incentivized.[/quote]

Incentivize the general public all you want. But at the moment there are 100 or so Murch employees, many of whom drive and probably cannot switch to public transport at the drop of a hat. Should we upend the entire faculty as well? [b]Murch also isn't close to any metro stop.[/b] So that should be fun for the staff, carrying all the stuff elementary school teachers carry.[/quote]

BS!  I live just north of Murch and walk to the Van Ness Metro stop every day, and then take the train to get to my job.  There are also buses on Connecticut Ave. (1 short block away from Murch) that connect to the Metro.  I'm not saying that public transit is feasible for every staff member, but to say that the school is basically inaccessible via transit is plain flat wrong.[/quote]

Yes, they can take the bus or walk for 15-20 minutes uphill from Van Ness. But have you ever done that carrying a large box of crayons or a huge pile of workbooks?[/quote]

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