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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]

Yeah, that's what we are going to *require.*

(No, the game is actually to incentivize people to park in a garage or take an uber. Which they largely will, if the price is comparable.)[/quote]

Sounds like you've never taken an Uber on a Saturday night. The price is not comparable! [/quote]

So DC should actually charge more? Ok.[/quote]

Yes! Charge more! We can do to the bar scene what we did to the restaurant scene! (Does anyone still go to restaurants?). Seriously, you can charge more but then don't complain when people stop going to U Street. There are lots of other bars in other places, including Maryland and Virginia, where everything is not a giant pain in the ass. [/quote]

People don't go to restaurants anymore, they are too crowded.

:roll:[/quote]

Do you even live here? The restaurant scene is a sad shadow of what it was 10 years ago. [/quote]

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