If he really wants to go to a certain restaurant, he doesn't allow the parking situation to deter him.

Because the parking situation is so abominable and the crime problem still exists, people don't stay in the area.

But the bakery is still doing a brisk breakfast and lunch business, despite the parking situation.

Here in Riverdale, where we now live, the parking situation is not much different.

"Everything else is so wonderful that I am dealing with the parking situation," he said.

One drawback for people who live in the state has been the ever-worsening traffic and parking situation.

Police and city officials say they do not see the parking situation in the dire terms used by neighborhood merchants.

It's worth doing just to ease the parking situation.

"People should not have to fear the parking situation in Washington."

"There was this general understanding that you would be allowed to move over because of the pressing parking situation in the city," she said.