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How Old Parking Meters Are Reused Across The River
Here in Penn Quarter, we’ve seen the old coin operated parking meters replaced with those fancy multi-space parking kiosks (they take credit cards!). Well, the same transformation has occurred in parts of Arlington, as we observed last week. However, instead of completely removing the old parking meters, Arlington had an interesting idea for the poles […]
DDOT Introduces Valet Parking Permits
Courtesy of the Washington Post, we hear that DDOT has announced a new valet parking permit and regulation where restaurants can pay as little as 50 cents per hour for a 20 foot stretch of street parking. What a deal! Of course, there are many details and additional fees that need to be considered. And […]
Spies In Penn Quarter
Have you seen any tourists wandering Penn Quarter with a large, sidekick-looking device in their hands? Washington DC’s Daily Candy tipped us off to this interesting new program that the Spy Museum is running. Named Spy in the City, participants carry GPS enabled devices throughout Penn Quarter on a mission to foil a terrorist plot. […]
NASA Holds Press Conference At Newseum Tomorrow
It’s great to see that the Newseum will be hosting a press conference of historic significance. Here are the details of the Thursday, July 16th event: NASA will hold a media briefing at 11 a.m. EDT on Thursday, July 16, at the Newseum in Washington to release greatly improved video imagery from the July 1969 […]