FINES ARE FOR LITTLE PEOPLE. Vehicles assigned to the offices of [Washington D.C.] Mayor Adrian M. Fenty and Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee have racked up more than $1,000 in unpaid parking tickets and traffic fines, according to a new D.C. auditor's review.

No surprise here, of course. Traffic fines are for little people, not D.C.’s movers and shakers.

Here’s the interesting factoid, though. Washington D.C. has a total land area of 61.4 square miles; it has 40 Metro (subway) stations, or roughly one station for every 1.5 square miles. If they were uniformly distributed over the land area, there would be one within 1,200 yards of wherever you are in the city.

Yet the city owns a fleet of 2,635 vehicles, or just over 40 vehicles for every square mile of land area.

Can’t they use the Metro?