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EVERY CITY HAS ITS SECRETS. Washington, D.C., may have more than most, but I wasn't there to dig up bodies, corporeal or political. My interest in visiting our nation's capital was to find out more about a covert society, an organization of carpoolers who use codes and word of mouth to work around D.C.'s notorious traffic jams and exorbitant tolls. Under cherry blossoms light as dreams and in the long shadow of the Washington Monument, I set out in search of slugs.
The origins of slugging are murky, buried somewhere in the smoggy '70s, when the Shirley Highway (1-395) from Virginia to D.C. became the first U.S. freeway to implement a high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane. Those early carpool lanes were strict, initially requiring four occupants (now three), so commuting drivers would fill their seats by swinging by the bus stop and sniping riders. Eventually, the bus lines had more hopeful carpoolers than mass-transit riders, and the bus drivers began referring to the faux passengers as false coins, also known as slugs. Undeterred by the slander, the slugs claimed the nickname and the practice grew in popularity, developing set locations and traditions. When the Virginia Department of Transportation partnered with the private toll-road operator Transurban in the early 2000s, multiperson vehicles were exempted from the expensive fees to encourage carpooling, thus keeping the fast lanes flowing free. Slugging is symbiotic-no money changes hands, but all parties benefit.
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