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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Due to abuse. Parking is for residents and their guests. Depending on the area, it allows up to 2 hours parking without a residential permit.

Do you also get mad that you have to pay a meter to park on the street in Bethesda? Or that most of residential DC is permit parking only?[/quote]

Metered parking allocates a scarce resource by price - it is open to all and all must pay - and increasinly localities adjust the price based on demand.

[b]DC permit parking is stupid.   Its not even justified by the claim to be able to park near your house - since the permits are ward wide.  Someone in a SFH in distant parts of Ward 3 can use their permit to park in dense area near metro.  DC would be well advised to have smaller permit areas and MUCH higher prices for RPPs in places where parking is in high demand (a white market, allowing RPP holders to sell their permits to outsiders, would be another way to introduce some market logic) [/b]

Yeah, in general residental parking permit programs effectively give valuable public property (on street parking) to private persons for a nominal amount.   They also incentivize those private persons to fight development and changes that would reduce the number of spots - "because you are taking away MY space".

https://www.amazon.com/High-Cost-Free-Parking-Updated/dp/193236496X[/quote]

Upper NW has RPP to prevent people from Maryland coming in and parking to use the metro. I live about 500 yards from a metro stop and would advocate for smaller RPP zones.[/quote]

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