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Mayoral parking debate: Gray says he'll roll back meter hours, recently extended to 10:30 pm, worrying that the change hurt DC businesses. Fenty says it would create a $6 million budget hole. (Examiner) (Comment · Share)

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Brown and Orange talk parking tickets

by David Alpert • September 4, 2010 1:28 pm

An Alexandria resident and former DC resident called into Friday's WAMU Politics Hour to ask Kwame Brown and Vincent Orange, the candidates for DC Council Chairman, about parking:

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Trading barbs: DCist quoted Mayoral candidate Vincent Gray calling parking rates "outrageous" during yesterday's debate, making Matt Yglesias worry Gray might "undo the controversial Fenty-era education and transportation reforms." Gray also called out Mayor Fenty for his sluggish implementation of inclusionary zoning. (DCist, Steven Yates) (Comment · Share)

Back and forth on parking minimums : In the most mild-mannered war of words the internet has seen in a while, Cato's Randal O'Toole responds to Donald Shoup's response to O'Toole's original reaction to Tyler Cowen's op-ed about Shoup's book. Did you follow all that? (Michael Perkins) (Comment · Share)

A free response: Donald Shoup responds personally to Cato's Randall O'Toole and his un-libertarian parking minimums rant. (Comment · Share)

No more free parking: San Francisco's Muni will start charging all employees to park at the agency yards, after drivers refused to forgo their legally mandated pay raises. The parking fees will be charged to all employees, not just drivers. Now if only WMATA could get their employees to even park in real spaces. (SF Gate) (Comment · Share)

Performance parking in the park: Yantai Park in China's Shangdong province has instituted a pay-to-sit scheme on some popular park benches. If a park patron does not pay up for their posterior, sharp spikes will poke them from the bench seat. Park officials were inspired by an installation by a German artist who was protesting the commercialization and indignities of modern life. (Orange News, Vimeo, AJ) (Comment · Share)

70 percent empty? Mission accomplished: A $9.3 million parking garage built by the City of College Park remains 70 percent empty and takes in only $100,000 per month. Despite this, city officials claim their project is a success, since the garage's poor performance is slightly better than it was a few months ago. (Gazette) (Comment · Share)

Parking policy goes mainstream: GMU economics professor Tyler Cowen explains the high cost of free parking in the New York Times. His post about the article on his blog, Marginal Revolution, created a lively discussion. (Comment · Share)

Making payment a pleasure?: The Post summarizes DDOT's experiments with parking meter payment technologies, including pay by plate, pay by space and pay by phone. (Comment · Share)

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