Fight brewing over handicap parking in D.C.

A fight is brewing on the D.C. Council over whether disabled drivers should have to pay for parking on crowded city streets.

D.C. Councilwoman Muriel Bowser, D-Ward 4, plans to introduce a bill Tuesday that would effectively end the city’s new red-top meter program, which reserves nearly one of every 10 of the city’s on-street parking spaces for disabled people, costs as much as regular meters but allows twice as much time.