A closed 7th Street on weekends at Eastern Market

A closed 7th Street on weekends at Eastern Market
Originally uploaded by rllayman

There is still tremendous pushback on the part of food vendors within the temporary East Hall structure over the issue of closing 7th Street SE on the weekends. For the most part, they aren't in favor. They think they are losing all their driving customers. Every time they bring this up, I ask why they don't offer shared delivery services? After all, wouldn't you want one truck making 10 deliveries rather than having 10 cars drive to the market?

A few Sundays back I counted the number of empty parking spaces in the lot off C Street SE, behind the big office building on the 600 block of Pennsyvlania Ave. SE. At 1 pm, there were more than 20 empty spaces.

Plus, until now, you couldn't even have metering and enforcement on weekends in Capitol Hill. Likely the spaces on the street weren't even turning over, as for the most part, the spaces have been hogged by employees and flea market and crafts vendors...