Donald Shoup, the “parking guru,” is coming to Alexandria and making a public presentation tomorrow. If you make it down to Alexandria for just one event this year, this is the one. In The High Cost of Free Parking, Shoup laid out the economic fallacies in underpricing parking, and popularized the concept of market-based performance parking which dedicates revenue to the local neighborhoods and businesses.

Shoup’s talk is tomorrow, Wednesday, May 27th, 6-8 pm at the George Washington Masonic Memorial’s theater right by the King Street Metro.

One of Shoup’s graduate students sent in a tip that Shoup will be Twittering at shoup1234 during his six-week national tour. There are no tweets there yet, however.

This weekend is WalkingTown DC, the twice-yearly bonanza of great walking and bicycle tours of DC neighborhoods. Arlington will also open the Four Mile Run trail, and the schoolchildren who designed a better North Capitol Street will present their designs on Saturday.

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