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    Penn Parking - Franklin Court - Typical event exit backup at Franklin Court parking garage

    Penn Parking - Franklin Court

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    You'd think that the logistics of operating a parking garage would be pretty well solved by now…read more There aren't a lot of moving parts. Cars come in. Cars go out. Some people pay daily, others have an account. The trick to a functioning parking garage is preventing bottlenecks. People who pay monthly don't want to wait in line behind people who pay daily. That's kinda why we pay monthly. Franklin Court Penn Parking hasn't really figured this out. Most big DC parking garages just make you pay the daily flat rate when you come in, and there's no gate to leave. Monthly people just drive around the line of daily parkers. For some reason, even though it's a flat rate for 99% of the people parking here, they want you to take a ticket and pay on the way out. But there's only one exit. And even though I can pay for a cup of coffee at starbucks in 3 seconds, for some reason, these guys seem to have a 1990's style credit card processing system that takes about 3 minutes to check out each person. And the fact that the lady who works here at night (who appears to never go on vacation) loves to chat up her friends when they check out each day doesn't speed things up much either. There's actually enough space for two lanes to exit, but one is blocked for some unknown reason. So the result is, if you leave between 5 and 6 PM, you wait. And wait. I've waited 10 minutes to get out of the garage, which is an awesome add-on to my 30 minute commute. There are other things that are annoying about this garage too. It seems to be used by some HVAC contractors who have a fleet of extra-long trucks that stick halfway into the aisle, causing near collisions as people try to navigate through the spaces barely big enough for a car. There are speed bumps every 50 feet, which I am sure are slowly eating away at my suspension, and caused me to scrape my car-top storage container once, even though it was well under the entry height limit. The elevator bank that gets you in and out is fascinating in its inefficiency. There are 3 elevators serving 4 levels of parking ONLY (they don't also go up to the office levels), and there aren't usually people waiting for one, yet it invariably takes 60-90 seconds for an elevator to come when I go to my car. What are they all doing? Why doesn't the software send an unused elevator back to the lobby so every single person doesn't have to wait every single time? All this adds up to an extraordinarily un-streamlined process of getting to your car. My commute would be 25 minutes if I could just drive out of the garage like I have at almost every other place in DC I've parked. Instead, it's 35-40. So why do I park here? Well, my employer subsidizes the rate so I save a hundred bucks a month. I am seriously considering foregoing the benefit to park somewhere else. Why don't they get 1 star? The parking spaces themselves are pretty decent. I've been in garages with awful pole configurations and tiny spots. Most of the spaces here are manageable. But that's little consolation.

    Colonial Parking - parking - Updated May 2026

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