Fenty's cycling has a major impact on traffic. The teammates generally ride three or four abreast, taking up one or more lanes of traffic.
This stuff always cracks me up. Guess what? they ARE traffic. What about all those dopey cars snarling traffic? Do people who write this stuff read it?
It sounds like the mayor is pushing it a bit. I get having a security detail but to abuse privileges to go on big highways sounds like stretch to me.