Slugging News…

New Slug Lines Being Formed

A number of slugs and drivers are trying to develop new slug lines. 

• New 610 Destination at 19th & F St.  There is a move to add Rt. 610 as a destination from the slug line at 19th and F St. beginning 1 September 2003. See Message Board for more info.

• Springfield Mall or Kingstowne Lines There has been interest in starting a line east of the Bob's (aka Long John Silver) for quite some time. I really think these will work but we need somebody to take charge of getting these started!  See Springfield Mall messages or Kingstowne Alexandria messages

• Herndon to Rosslyn.  A new line was started in Herndon for Rosslyn commuters as well as the return slug ride home.  They even have a website! See the Herndon page on Slug-Lines.com or visit their site at www.slugline.org.

New eSlug Concept

Call it "eSlug", "coordinated slugging" or just a variation of traditional carpooling, but a number of locations are using email lists to facilitate slugging home. The Navy Yard has had a list for over a year with over 150 participants to help them get home. And areas like 18th & 25th (with 130 members), and Rosslyn to Rt. 17 (recently started) are growing daily.   "Slug Groups" were developed by Slug-Lines.com to help sluggers get home, but many have simply started their own email lists.  Stay tuned for additional information.

Some Stats:

• Website has 1241 active members.

• 1435 subscribers to the newsletter.

• Message Board has over 561 active topics with  3640 posts and 149,141 readings!

• 14 Lost and 62 Found items posted on the Lost and Found Section  See the list below of items posted in the last 30 days.

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Features added to the Website!

A number of upgrades and new features have been added to the website to handle the increasing number of visitors and to improve security! Here's just some of the upgrades:

• New "Slug Groups" - Slug-Lines.com now has automated mailing lists similar to Yahoo Groups! These automated lists are known as "Groups" or "list-server mailing lists" and allow you to subscribe (and unsubscribe) to a specific topic. Many slugs are using this system to coordinate ride homes. See Slug Groups.

• New Star Rating System - A new star rating system has been introduced to help evaluate slug lines!!  Hopefully this will help others determine which lines to use. Visit you favorite slug line web page and cast your vote! You can even leave comments to tell others the good (or bad) things about the line. See Slug Rating System.

To all the Slugs, Drivers and Sponsor, thanks for all the support!