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At least this time they didn’t claim it was a “security measure.” But the National Park Service’s arbitrary decision to close the main parking lot at the Tidal Basin during Cherry Blossom Festival, when the Tidal Basin gets more visitors than any other time of year, was ridiculous nonetheless. It represents one more instance of the Park Service ignoring the notion that it exists to serve — not inconvenience — the public. The agency’s excuse was that everyone wants to land one of the 180 spots at the Tidal Basin, so — they’ll show us! — the Park Service shut down the entire parking lot. With no one cruising through hoping to land a spot, the NPS says there should be no attendant congestion at the lot’s exit point (congestion that is minimal at the worst of times, since traffic immediately empties onto Interstate 395).

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