The Nats continue to expand their single-game parking offerings, with
new options for drive-up cash lot parking now
posted on the official web site (and being mentioned during game telecasts). The latest offerings are: a)
valet parking (at $50 a pop!) inside the
Southeastern Bus Garage at Half and M (which the Nats are
now leasing from WMATA), b) additional cash-lot parking in official Nats
lots T and W (at
Capper) for $20 and
lot HH for $15; and c)
pre-pay-only individual-game
Red Zone parking at a mere
$40 a game.
Even broadcaster Don Sutton remarked during a broadcast a few nights ago that perhaps the Nats did *too* good of a job of telling people how tight parking and traffic would be, and that now there's plenty of inventory. (Perhaps the Nats also saw the private cash lots cropping up and saw a little bit of $$ flowing away from their grasp....)
But will this additional traffic flow to parking lots increase congestion, causing angst about the volume of cars descending on the neighborhood? (Then again, if it does, perhaps the pendulum then swings back toward people using Metro or the Nats Express.)