The road back to the black for the region’s cash-strapped governments will be paved largely by their drivers.

In coming months, parking tickets, traffic fines and the price of merely owning a vehicle likely will increase as local officials, particularly in the District, look for ways to fill bare coffers — at the expense of car-dependent residents facing one of the nation’s harshest commutes.

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