27 May 2010

Get Off My Parking Space!

At a recent dinner party, there was a lively conversation about the new multi-space parking meters that don’t actually seem to work a lot of the time.  This, of course, devolved into complaints about the $20 in quarters you have to carry around in order to park for any length of time (7 minutes, really??).  […]


10 Dec 2009

ANC 6B Roundup

The ANC 6B meeting was held Tuesday night at 7 pm, with all commissioners in attendance, albeit ANC 6B-11 still being a vacant seat.  The following are highlights: Chair David Garrison called the meeting into order a few minutes after 7 pm, with about 15 members of the community and a few guest speakers, including […]


20 Nov 2009

Performance Parking Program Brings Improvements to The Hill

When those fancy new multi-space meters were installed around the Southeast side of Capitol Hill, I assumed that they were about efficiency (fitting more parking spots on each block), aesthetics (2 big green machines in place of 20 ugly metal meters), and revenue (the city can increase rates more easily and reduce the frequency of […]


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