[calvinbhai]

All tickets (for parking on snow emergency routes) have been voided

http://dcist.com/2016/01/mayor_bowser_is_voiding_tickets_iss...

During snow emergencies, cities should work with parking garages to make overnight parking for cars, free. It'll solve a lot of problems.

If cars are not removed past the emergency, ticket revenue can be shared with the garage

[dustcoin]

>During snow emergencies, cities should work with parking garages to make overnight parking for cars, free. It'll solve a lot of problems.

DC did in this case. The city warned about the emergency routes ahead of time, offered free parking at metro stations, and worked with private garages to offer $1/day parking.

[mikeash]

Great. What's the point of snow emergency routes if you can just park there during a storm with no consequences?

Many local garages were either free or $1/day for the storm. There was no excuse to leave cars parked on these routes.

[calvinbhai]

I think this was a face saving publicity move by DC mayor.

I guess I missed the free or $1 a day parking info since I was working from home.

It certainly feels unfair to all those people (including me) who took enough pains to ensure they planned their days in a way that the cars weren't on the Snow Emergency Routes.

[cortesoft]

What about being unable to dig your car out?

[mikeash]

Unless you were the victim of some seriously dedicated practical jokesters, this was unlikely to have been a problem before the storm hit.

[thrownaway2424]

That's generous. Do you also think the city should "work with" hotels to provide free housing for people during snow storms, or is your outpouring reserved only for automobiles?

[CalRobert]

You're getting downvoted, but I think your point is a useful illustration of how we unwittingly worry more about places for cars to sleep than places for people to sleep. Everyone demands free, abundant, convenient parking, at the same time they vote to restrict construction of new housing. Then they complain about rents. People are weird.

[Bedon292]

Actually, the city did work with area motels to house homeless in order to get them off the streets, since they were out of space in the homeless shelters.

[jsmeaton]

If they declared your house was in an emergency route and you had to move for a few days then yes.

[restalis]

In your reasoning you do take into account the houses being immobile and automobiles - well... mobile?