Who doesn’t like a good slug? The Post’s Derek Kravitz tries to find out in a rehash of the “cops are unfairly targeting sluggers” story. It’s a lot of the same old song and dance: slugging is great for commuters, traffic and the environment; cops are unfairly targeting sluggers to hand out pricey tickets; it’s not fair that cyclists have bike lanes and HOV commuters don’t have slug lanes; police officials toeing the “we aren’t targeting, just enforcing the law in the interest of safety” line, et cetera, et cetera.

Whilst browsing through our usual feed of transit news, we came upon this USA Today article about the Drive 55 campaign — it was of modest interest, but nothing that seemed to be too D.C.-area related. After all, the speed limit for all our major highways in Maryland and Virginia have been set at 65 since the national limit was raised by Congress in November 1995 (see page 20 of this PDF), and only a…