xcel,

The area around Washington D.C. is a zoo during the rush hours. Cops basically let the majority go 10-15 over to keep the traffic flowing. They will ticket you for 15 over in off peak times however. When I travel north or northwest, I always go around the D.C. area.

A schoolteacher friend of mine who lives in Manassas was very glad to get a job at a different school. He was tired of "having to go 80 to keep from being run over" twice a day. He's now about to buy a used Insight to take the sting out of driving 600-700 miles a week (50 miles each way to work and most weekends he flees the city to come and relax in the country).