Triple Aces for Toll Lanes

Finally, after years of stubborn opposition to the very idea, AAA of the Mid-Atlantic region now reluctantly backs a plan for toll roads in the traffic-choked Washington, DC area. The state of Maryland -- with its first GOP guv in a billion years, hint hint -- has noticed that charging people for road use makes a lot of sense and dollars.

As usual, the smart growthers are appalled. Some things never change. Still, this a big, big development.