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Minor quibble: the Shuttle is at Udvar-Hazy, which is also free but has kinda pricey parking. ($17, iirc). You don't have to drive, though it is kinda far from
by jfengel 1y ago
Minor quibble: the Shuttle is at Udvar-Hazy, which is also free but has kinda pricey parking. ($17, iirc).
You don't have to drive, though it is kinda far from anything else. And the price is per car rather than per person, so a family visit is far cheaper.
- addaon 1y ago> You don't have to drive, though it is kinda far from anything else. It’s right at Dulles, easy to cap onto a trip in or out of the DC area, or even a long-ish layover.
- burkaman 1y agoIt is far but you can take the metro to the bus, that's how I've visited. And it is a really cool museum, I would recommend it to anyone. Try to go before the shuttle is gone I guess, but they also have an SR-71, lots of satellites, a Concorde, and a thousand other planes. Just a giant hangar full of cool stuff.
- racnid 1y agoThat is a long trip from downtown; but utterly worth it.
- amy_petrik 1y agoalso worth mentioning the Smithsonian air and space museum (there are two, the one people know about on the national mall, and the less well known but way better one somewhere in virginia) -- the latter one also pulls the same stunt - free entry, expensive parking. Also see: many of our state and national parks. Clearly these museums are either (a) underfunded (2) overspending (c) both, thusly operating in a capitalistic fashion. kind of silly since the purpose is knowledge for the people. imagine a library with free borrowing and return of books and resources, free internet, but parking at the library is $10.
- infecto 1y agoI don’t think it’s clear. I am not a local to these areas but it sounds like it could also be similar to tragedy of the commons. If the parking was free maybe it becomes overused by other folks and there are ways to prevent that but people are clever getting around loopholes. Easy enough to charge for parking.