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Tourists/visitors can no longer park in DC Metro lots
Are you ---ing serious?? Notwithstanding the civil liberties
implications, this means tourists and visitors travelling to the DC area can no longer access the system by car, nor suburbanites who use farecards. The implications are highly disturbing. CCed to rtusa-c.Advise tourists arriving by car not to attempt to use Metro. And advise them to contact their representatives. One more reason to oppose large parking lots at Metro stations. --BER "Keith F. Lynch" wrote: According to http://wmata.com/about/MET_NEWS/Pres...?ReleaseID=349 anyone who wants to park in a DC Metro parking lot *must* have a SmarTrip card, starting June 28th. However, those cost $5 in addition to the actual value on the card. Since the value on the card is rechargable, the $5 is lost in the noise for someone who uses Metro a lot. But what about tourists, and people who just want to give Metro a quick try, but aren't sure they want to stick with it? -- Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/ Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me. |
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Tourists/visitors can no longer park in DC Metro lots
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Are you ---ing serious?? Notwithstanding the civil liberties implications, this means tourists and visitors travelling to What civil liberty? You can still pay cash for the card and add value to it anonymously through fare machines as mentioned in the press release (emphasis added by me): SmarTrip is available for purchase by ****CASH*****, check or credit/debit card... If you really value your privacy at more than $5, then purchase a 2nd, 3rd, or 4th and use them randomly. I wish the DC area would make parking meters and the pay garages at the airports SmartTrip compatible. No more having to scrounge up quarters and dimes to feed the meter. No more having to wait in a huge line of credit card payers when exiting the BWI airport garage, etc. Europe is far ahead of the US in terms of deployed pay parking technology. |
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