A tip of the hat to Loose Lips Daily for pointing us to this nugget from NBC4 on Friday: Ward 2 D.C. Council member Jack Evans says he wants the District to “reconsider” its cell phone driving ban. Now, we’ve written before about how most D.C. area drivers appear to be ignoring the law and how while the number of tickets issued keeps going up every year, enforcement is still pretty lax and certainly doesn’t seem to be discouraging many people from breaking the law.

Evans knows all about this, of course, because a citizen tattled on him to the Washington Post for using his cell phone while driving last summer, and he didn’t get pulled over.

Neither Virginia nor Maryland have cell phone driving bans on the books. Everyone seems to agree that people who are talking on their cell phones drive like jackasses, but what do you think about doing away with the $100 tickets the MPD can currently issue to those who are caught doing it? Is it just not worth it? The District issues upwards of $1 million in cell phone-related driving fines each year.