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tracyace
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 Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:56 pm Post subject: Parking meter changes on Lamont |
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In the last week, most of the meters on Lamont have been changed from starting at 9 a.m. to starting at 7 a.m. This also happened about six months ago on Mt. Pleasant Street. As someone who drives and leaves for work between 8 and 9, this is causing a problem for me. It is getting frustrating because there are hardly any spots convenient to Lamont/16th St. anymore to park where your car can stay until 8 or 9 in the morning.
Anyone know why they changed those meters? |
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jack
Joined: 23 Mar 2004
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Location: 19th & Lamont
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:47 am Post subject: Re: Parking meter changes on Lamont |
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| tracyace wrote: | In the last week, most of the meters on Lamont have been changed from starting at 9 a.m. to starting at 7 a.m. This also happened about six months ago on Mt. Pleasant Street. As someone who drives and leaves for work between 8 and 9, this is causing a problem for me. It is getting frustrating because there are hardly any spots convenient to Lamont/16th St. anymore to park where your car can stay until 8 or 9 in the morning.
Anyone know why they changed those meters? |
I had heard that DDOT was going to put all the meters on the same time, vs. the mishmash of days and hours that has prevailed. Presumably they chose 7 AM because that's when the first business on Mount Pleasant Street opens (Heller's). I'll see what we can do about this.
-- Jack |
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tracyace
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| Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:35 am Post subject: |
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| It would be great if you were able to do something about this — thanks! |
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igorok
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:14 pm Post subject: Re: Parking meter changes on Lamont |
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| tracyace wrote: | | In the last week, most of the meters on Lamont have been changed from starting at 9 a.m. to starting at 7 a.m. |
Perhaps only to be filed under FWIW: As you may know, in some parts of the city the meters are being swapped out for the system where you buy a parking permit "ticket" and place it on your dashboard to show that you've paid to park. In Europe where I have seen that system, some ticket vending machines are set up so that you can pay at night for the next morning. So, for example, if parking rules run from 7AM to 7PM and it is 6:30PM when you buy a 90 minute ticket, it expires the next morning at 8AM. Or, if you buy a 1 hour ticket at 6:30AM it will expire at 8AM. Makes sense to me. (Caveat: For all I know, the ticket machines in DC offer that same feature.) Now that I think of it, I bet that the new-fangled computerized meters have the hardware capablity to do the same -- if only they were programmed to do it. I am thinking of the meters, for example, that zero themsleves out when they sense that the car parked there has left -- so, no matter how much was left on the meter, the next person parking there starts at zero time. Ah, but what's in it for the city? (I parked in Georgetown at a meter. The sign on the post said "2 hours". The big sticker on the meter said "2 hours". So, I dropped in 2-hours-worth of quarters. Then I saw that a small sticker on the meter said "1 hour" -- and that's all that registered.) |
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jack
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 9:34 pm Post subject: Parking meters |
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| tracyace wrote: | | It would be great if you were able to do something about this — thanks! |
Unfortunately my parking contact at DDOT, Harold Smith, suddenly died. I'll have to try to sort this out once I find out who's handling parking now.
-- Jack |
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