Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:OP, you are my people.
I live in DC, just north of Georgetown. I use the DC311 app to report cars all the time. I was walking my baby yesterday and multiple homes in Georgetown had cars parked in front of their garages, blocking the sidewalk. I had to push my stroller into the street to get around.
I whipped out my phone and reported them. DC park patrol wrote up two tickets for illegally blocking the sidewalk within 45 minutes. It was glorious. The app even notified me when the officers wrote the tickets and closed my reports! Such a satisfying feeling.
We often have Georgetown students parking their out-of-state vehicles on our block, usually for weeks at a time. In the middle of the night, I'll walk down our one block and report 10-12 out-of-state vehicles. Parking enforcement loves me, because they can ticket so many cars with just 10 minutes of work. The cars will be blanketed with pink tickets in the morning, unless the students have properly registered and paid for out-of-state exemptions (it's not cheap - like $300 per 90 days). I want to motivate them to register their vehicles in DC and pay their share of road fees.
No apologies, I'll cut a b#tch who dumps a car in my neighborhood.
Can’t wait until your kids go to college out of state to see if you actually re-register your car there. Hahahahahaha
Anonymous wrote:OP, you are my people.
I live in DC, just north of Georgetown. I use the DC311 app to report cars all the time. I was walking my baby yesterday and multiple homes in Georgetown had cars parked in front of their garages, blocking the sidewalk. I had to push my stroller into the street to get around.
I whipped out my phone and reported them. DC park patrol wrote up two tickets for illegally blocking the sidewalk within 45 minutes. It was glorious. The app even notified me when the officers wrote the tickets and closed my reports! Such a satisfying feeling.
We often have Georgetown students parking their out-of-state vehicles on our block, usually for weeks at a time. In the middle of the night, I'll walk down our one block and report 10-12 out-of-state vehicles. Parking enforcement loves me, because they can ticket so many cars with just 10 minutes of work. The cars will be blanketed with pink tickets in the morning, unless the students have properly registered and paid for out-of-state exemptions (it's not cheap - like $300 per 90 days). I want to motivate them to register their vehicles in DC and pay their share of road fees.
No apologies, I'll cut a b#tch who dumps a car in my neighborhood.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:OP, you are my people.
I live in DC, just north of Georgetown. I use the DC311 app to report cars all the time. I was walking my baby yesterday and multiple homes in Georgetown had cars parked in front of their garages, blocking the sidewalk. I had to push my stroller into the street to get around.
I whipped out my phone and reported them. DC park patrol wrote up two tickets for illegally blocking the sidewalk within 45 minutes. It was glorious. The app even notified me when the officers wrote the tickets and closed my reports! Such a satisfying feeling.
We often have Georgetown students parking their out-of-state vehicles on our block, usually for weeks at a time. In the middle of the night, I'll walk down our one block and report 10-12 out-of-state vehicles. Parking enforcement loves me, because they can ticket so many cars with just 10 minutes of work. The cars will be blanketed with pink tickets in the morning, unless the students have properly registered and paid for out-of-state exemptions (it's not cheap - like $300 per 90 days). I want to motivate them to register their vehicles in DC and pay their share of road fees.
No apologies, I'll cut a b#tch who dumps a car in my neighborhood.
Thanks Karen
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:You’re entirely correct, but not going far enough. Why do we allow public land (the street) to be used to store private property (cars) practically for free? If you buy a car it should be on YOU to find and pay for a private place to store it. Either that or parking permits should cost $1000s to better reflect the actual costs they impose on society.
This is how they do it in Japan. You can’t park on a public street overnight.
I'm sure the historic commission would love people adding garages to historic row houses
I'm sure residents of those historic row homes had 3 vehicles back in the day.
Anonymous wrote:OP, you are my people.
I live in DC, just north of Georgetown. I use the DC311 app to report cars all the time. I was walking my baby yesterday and multiple homes in Georgetown had cars parked in front of their garages, blocking the sidewalk. I had to push my stroller into the street to get around.
I whipped out my phone and reported them. DC park patrol wrote up two tickets for illegally blocking the sidewalk within 45 minutes. It was glorious. The app even notified me when the officers wrote the tickets and closed my reports! Such a satisfying feeling.
We often have Georgetown students parking their out-of-state vehicles on our block, usually for weeks at a time. In the middle of the night, I'll walk down our one block and report 10-12 out-of-state vehicles. Parking enforcement loves me, because they can ticket so many cars with just 10 minutes of work. The cars will be blanketed with pink tickets in the morning, unless the students have properly registered and paid for out-of-state exemptions (it's not cheap - like $300 per 90 days). I want to motivate them to register their vehicles in DC and pay their share of road fees.
No apologies, I'll cut a b#tch who dumps a car in my neighborhood.
Anonymous wrote:
I'm sure residents of those historic row homes had 3 vehicles back in the day.
funny, they won't move their cars for more than a few weeks, they sure as heck are not gonna pay to have their car parked in some lot miles from the home, where it would be ripe for the picking for vandals and thieves... and also would likely incur higher insurance rates since its not being garaged at the domicileAnonymous wrote:Does Alexandria have a private car park where people could rent long term spaces? Seems like it is needed given the lack of driveways in Old Town.
Anonymous wrote:Does Alexandria have a private car park where people could rent long term spaces? Seems like it is needed given the lack of driveways in Old Town.
Anonymous wrote:OP, you should just go about setting parked cars on fire.
It’s what kids are doing in our neighborhood. You could probably get away with it too. Police certainly aren’t interested in finding them. They didn’t even want to bother looking at our Ring video, even though you could see them plain as day. They simply do not care.