Metered parking is now two dollars an hour in most parts of the City. What’s more, you’ll need to feed the meters until 10.30 p.m., Mondays through Saturdays. Under the old meter law, most on-street parking was free after six or six thirty pm, and on Saturdays.
Washington theatergoers will, from this point forward, face four choices when they see a show: (a) take the Metro, (b) park in a garage or lot (make sure it stays open until the show’s over!), (c) bring lots of quarters for the meters, or find the nearest meter taking your charge card or (d) go on Sunday.
Sunday night in DC had dinner and a show. Neither would have made it in the new 2 hour limit. In the future will prefer the new Shirlington: Signature Theater, Harris Teeter, oodles of eating places, and free municipal parking.
I just hope that the garages in Shirlington continue to be “free” to park in.
So far, so good as far as free parking in Shirlington garages. A lot of people still don’t know about the Randolph Street parking garage which has large parking spaces, and lots of them. I happened to talk to someone at a store who said that she and her husband had planned to go to dinner and a movie, but left after circling the ‘Harris Teeter’ garage several times in search of a space. That’s not good. Also, I would like to mention for any readers who are out of the area that there is a brand new hotel right in Shirlington Village. It has great prices for the weekends, since most of their guests will be business travelers. So this is fantastic for people who will be coming to see the shows, cabarets and special events at Signature.
Good show, DC City Council! Best way to kill elective visits to downtown DC businesses, including theatres, restaurants, shops, museums, etc. Brilliant move! I won’t be coming downtown unless I absolutely have to. Outrageous!
Now all Shirlington needs is some theatre actually worth seeing.
I saw Andrew Long in “I Am My Own Wife” last week at Signature Theatre and thought it was very well done. I strongly recommend seeing it.