Press Release: New Penn Quarter-Chinatown Parking Meter Rate Schedule Begins August 5

News Release — District Department of Transportation

July 26, 2019

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Lauren Stephens

(Washington D.C.) – The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) will implement a new parking meter rate schedule in the Penn Quarter and Chinatown neighborhoods, effective August 5, 2019.

This is the eighth parking meter rate adjustment as part of a project to improve parking availability through demand-based pricing. The project area includes on-street parking spaces bounded by H Street NW, 3rd Street NW, E Street NW and 11th Street NW. The project aims to reduce the time needed to find parking, improve turnover of high-demand parking spaces, provide better parking information to motorists, and reduce congestion by adjusting prices based on observed demand for parking on a block-by-block basis.

Penn Quarter/Chinatown pricing adjustments will occur within the red boundary, between H St. NW, 3rd St. NW, E St. NW, and 11th St. NW.

Parking meter rates on individual block faces in this area will range from $1.00 to $7.00. As with the previous price adjustments, the rates on each block face will vary by time period: weekday morning, weekday midday, weekday evening, and Saturday.

The table below provides a summary of the number of block faces that will have quarterly demand-based meter rate adjustments. Blocks identified for adjustments are shown in the figure below:

The detailed parking adjustments will be available at parkdc.dc.gov. Travelers can also see pricing and real-time parking availability information using the parkDC or Voicepark mobile applications, available in the iTunes App Store for iOS and via Google Play for Android.

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