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Jun 17, 2010

Are Metro Police Salting the Slug Lines?

Photo by spoffy My favorite made-up-sounding metro-area transit phenomenon is the slug line: the carpool lanes that have developed organically between riders who need rides and drivers who want to give those rides to them, despite the fact that driver and rider are most likely strangers to one another. There hasn’t been a lot to report on the phenomenon recently, though the more-or-less official Slug Lines website did recently draft a Google map showing where…

 
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