D.C. waging war against drivers

Driving in the District is a high-price hassle: burning gasoline while stuck in traffic, feeding hungry parking meters and now tracking the ever-watchful traffic cameras waiting to make you pay up if you slip up.

If it seems like city leaders want to get cars off the road in the nation’s capital, that’s because they do — and it starts at the top. Mayor Vincent Gray’s environmental initiative, Sustainable DC, has a stated goal of cutting in half by 2032 the number of D.C. commuters who drive.