Recurring Nightmare: Parking on a Saturday Night!
This is definitely nothing new and will probably just have to be an accepted way of life forever, but something, SOME THING needs to be done about parking in certain neighborhoods. I don’t know what it is, but the city needs to perform a miracle because it is the single most frustrating thing that impacts all the “big name” neighborhoods.
Why am I resurrecting a well-known, well-bludgeoned dead horse? Well, normally, I traverse the by-ways of DC by Metro or foot, but every so often if I am with Sibling or friends, I may actually ride in a vehicle. So, this past Saturday, I went to a party in Adams Morgan, just a mile or so away from where I live in the U Street Corridor, and my driver friend and I spent an hour drive throughout the place, trying to find a space. That neighborhood might be happenin’ and all, but their parking is horrendous! I know U Street’s isn’t much better, but it is just a tad better…for now. Everybody and their mother was in Adams Morgan on Saturday night, and they each drove and parked separately apparently. We actually never found a space on the street. We had to just give in and pay beaucoup bucks to park in a lot.
As a homeowner in the U Street Corridor, with a Sibling co-owner who has a vehicle, I am terribly concerned about how much worse our own parking may become. Right now it is manageable, usually, but we have had our own horrors trying to find a space on a Saturday night when we dared venture out in the car. But, we do have to contend with the lovely people who patronize the neighborhood clubs and restaurants, the educated youth who park their cars and walk to Howard, and the many gentrifying neighbors who live in the gentrifying condos. The condos are what concern me the most. Some are not even completed, more are supposedly even yet to have broken ground…where are these children of God supposed to park? Not on my little block, they aren’t. Do the city planners and officials think about these things when they gladly allow every developer in the world to build some high-rise? Not all of the residents are going to pay for the expensive parking that the condo or apartment provides, not when they can just squeeze on my block and leave the homeowners without a space. Someone better figure something out because, Sibling needs a space. If it was just me, the barely-able-to-drive person that I am with zero car, I wouldn’t even think about this that much, but I’m looking out for Sibling and my kindly neighbors who just want to find a nearby space after a tiring day or tiring night. Let’s just hope U Street, as bad as it is already, doesn’t become a dearth of parking like Adams Morgan and Georgetown! Have you had parking nightmares? Rhetorical question, huh?!
Tags: adams morgan, cars, condos, georgetown, high-rises, howard university, parking, U Street Corridor, vehicles
February 25th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
I’m very concerned about parking once more of the condos are occupied too. It is bad enough now as we all know!
February 25th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
its not goingto get any better. Too many people moving in the neighborhood.