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>> Many of the Metropolitan Police Department’s police cars are old and need to be replaced, reports the Examiner. According to the department, 24 percent of the department’s fleet will be ready to be replaced during this fiscal year; police cars are supposed to be replaced every 100,000 miles or five years. As part of his 2014 budget, Mayor Vince Gray put $7.2 million towards replacing aging police cars.

>> Does D.C. feel a little more crowded? That’s because it is. WJLA reports that after July, April is the second-busiest month for tourism in the city. Students on spring break and visitors hoping to catch a glimpse of the cherry blossoms come into D.C., many of them in cars.

>> D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton wants all members of Congress to feel the pinch of sequestration, and she’s planning on introducing a bill that would subject congressional salaries to any future automatic spending cuts, writes NBC4. Currently, the president’s salary is exempted from any cuts, and congressional salaries have enjoyed the same protection.

Briefly Noted: Troubled Silver Spring Transit Center gets another $7.5 million … War veteran found dead in the Anacostia River … Maryland student arrested for bringing gun to school … Beware of the coyotes in Laurel!

This Day in DCist: On this day in 2012, Google snuck us all into the White House and Mitt Romney easily won the D.C. Republican primary. In 2011, Tea Party Traps came to Washington.