Posts tagged Meter Rates
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Breakfast links: Park or don’t drive
Charlottesville considers meters; NCPC unhappy with no new parking at Navy Yard?; Talking parking in Alexandria; Sweeper cam tickets to fund housing; BRAC all fraked; NYC imagines 49,000 shared bicycles; DCCA elects slate, President too close to call. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Not spending the money
Will Metro give money back while cutting service?; Fenty not spending meter increase money; T4A to Congress: save transit; Huge unused runway, or great rail line?; Benning on track for tracks; NYC may require “green retrofits”; 11 transit success stories; Bad BRAC bike setup still static; LaHood gets bicycling; PW-DC ferry in testing; Zipcar managing governmental car sharing. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Greener except on the Green Line
Uncutting transit; No Metro after late Nats games?; Good job Cavan!; FOX supports transit yesterday; Moran introduces national bag fee; More for the Mall; Vehicle hits man, reporter ignores driver; Too aggressive; UMD deletes garages; How about zig-zags?; Fenty’s $4,000 bike and other facts; Shopping to housing in Germantown; Not what we meant, Mendo. Keep reading…
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Montgomery considering Bethesda parking rate increase
The Montgomery County Council is following Transit First!‘s suggestion to shift parking subsidies to restore Ride-On service. According to a Transit First! fact sheet, the Bethesda parking district raises only $8.7 million per year in fees, while spending $12.5 million. Plus, the district doesn’t pay for street construction work, and the garages don’t pay… Keep reading…
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DC 2010 budget would end Saturday free parking
Back in November, Councilmember Jim Graham suggested raising parking meter rates to restore some cuts in important housing programs like HPAP, which helps people get mortgages to buy homes. Graham suggested raising $1/hour meters to $2, and 50¢ meters to 75¢. He also proposed ending DC’s policy of free parking on Saturdays. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Connect the dots
Virginia reconnects their grid; MoCo is caring about sharing; 13% of SmarBike subscribers live in other states; No more passes with Metrocheks; Chicago drivers annoyed by higher rates, snafus; Connolly looking to the next Metro extension; BART considers charging for parking on weekdays; Taller and greener in Arlington; Mini links. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Stimulating our irritation
Reinvigorate H Street with a parking lot? Owners of four old row buildings next to the Atlas Theater want to tear them down to build a surface parking lot. ANC 6a is not pleased. There’s a landmark nomination pending, and if the buildings are landmarked, HPRB will almost surely put the kibosh on the raze. But must we landmark buildings to keep them from turning into parking lots? Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Unexpected consequences
Save the trail, prevent other trails: Creators of the Capital Crescent Trail always intended it to run along with transit. A bike trail was a good immediate use of a temporarily unused transit ROW. Now that Montgomery residents opposed to transit are opposing the Purple Line because of the trail, one original trail planner regrets creating it in the first place. And, WashCycle explains,… Keep reading…
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Have DC Councilmembers ever tried to park downtown on a Saturday?
The Council passed Jim Graham’s parking meter rate hike yesterday, raising $1/hour meters to $2 and 50¢ meters to 75¢, and restoring much-needed city housing programs. But to get enough political support from the Council, Graham and co-introducer Tommy Wells had to agree to an amendment from Jack Evans designating $1 million of the revenue raised to the O Street… Keep reading…
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All you can eat
Two speakers, at two separate events I attended, today used the analogy of the all-you-can-eat buffet to describe aspects of our urban policy. Keep reading…