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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^^for numbers - there are currently about 23,000 parking spaces in downtown Bethesda, including spaces on the street, county garages, and private garages and surface lots.

That's a whole lot of parking for a whole lot of cars, in an area on top of a Metro station.[/quote]

Without many of these spots people would drive all the way to work in DC.  Because there is parking available in Bethesda, many people use metro for the vast majority of their commute, [b]which is ultimately what you want.[/b][/quote]

No, it's not ultimately what I want, and it's not ultimately what the county government wants either. It's wasteful and dumb for downtown Bethesda to be a park-and-ride for people's Metro trips to DC.[/quote]

[b]Then people will be happy to drive all the way to DC. [/b] It takes me about the same time either way.[/quote]

OK, if you want to drive into DC and pay to park there, then you should do that. Keep in mind, though, that DC is increasingly disinclined to make it easy for people to drive into DC, for basically the same reasons. [/quote]

Boy, I have somehow missed this grand, multi-jurisdiction effort to make driving nearly impossible and prohibitively expensive.  It's almost like you are confusing what you wish to be true with what is actually occurring.[/quote]

You missed the War on Cars? Good for you!

But actually it's not an issue of making driving nearly impossible and prohibitively expensive. It's an issue of designing places for the people who live there, rather than the people who want [b]to drive through there as fast as possible and park for free (or for cheap)[/b]. We're not there yet, but we're on the way.

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Free or cheap parking in downtown DC.  Pray do tell where that would be?  A spot can easily cost $300/month, but people pay that because it is far more convenient than other options.
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