Not Quite 2009: Inauguration Crowds Smaller, But Still Leave Their Mark
WASHINGTON — The inauguration for the nation’s first African-American elected president drew the largest crowds in the history of the nation’s capital in 2009, but President Barack Obama’s second-term inauguration was scaled back with organizers lowering their turnout estimate the day before the event from less than half the 1.8 million people that gathered four years ago to between 500,000-700,000.
But it still didn’t mean there were short lines or a lack of crowds.
While Metrorail trains had plenty of room in the early morning, they soon became crowded. And the National Mall was reported as “full and closed” at 11:35 a.m., four and a half hours after opening at 7 a.m., according to the U.S. Park Police.
At the end of the day, the Washington Metro Area Transit Authority (WMATA) reported Metrorail ridership was at 695,000, which caused “heavy crowds” at all Metro stations near the mall, the U.S. Park Police said.
Businesses in the area welcomed the crowds. Eighteen restaurants held extended hours to accommodate the influx of inauguration-goers, including Carmine’s at 425 7th St. NW—a few blocks from the Inaugural parade route.
“We weren’t open in 2009, but this is fabulous for business,” said Jill Collins, Carmine’s spokeswoman. “Thousands of people are walking past our restaurant and it’s been packed all weekend.”
Collins said a lot of thinking ahead went into preparing for the day’s festivities, including arranging deliveries ahead of time before the road closures, and gearing up for security. “The Secret Service has been very accommodating,” she said. “We’ve been having briefings for weeks.”
I’d say this is an omen of things to come, but I got stuck in one of these back in July, so this is just normal operations — D.C. subway system breaks down taking crowds home from inaugural.
Best graph: “The problems occurred even though Metro was handling far fewer passengers than during Obama’s first swearing-in in January 2009. As of 8 p.m., 719,000 people had entered the subway system, down from just over 1 million at the same point in 2009. The total was consistent with Metro’s projections and was roughly the same as the number of people who ride the rail network on a normal business day.“
Yea,I’ll just bet they left their mark alright…trash all over the place….”third rate romance,low rent rendezvous”
What drives Obama is his inborn nature, which is similar to that of a Vampyroteuthis Infernalis, lit. “Vampire Squid from Hell“, ramming his blood funnel into every part of America to suck dry all remaining individual freedoms. His blood lust and pyromania will not be satiated unless the United States Constitution, especially including it’s Bill of Rights, and most especially the First, Second and Fourth Amendments, is a incinerated corpse. As this throwback fascist monstrosity was reelected this past November the mask will now come completely off and he will go into a rabid freedom killing totalitarian frenzy such as this nation has never before even imagined.
Up too late again, ‘Cat?
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The Obama Inauguration Brought To You By Corporations and Unions by Kevin Glass Jan 21, 2013
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/kevinglass/2013/01/21/the-obama-inauguration-brought-to-you-by-corporations-and-unions-n1493795
I want to see the after photos of the crowd and compare how Glen Beck’s crowd left the capital and how these people did?
But that photo probably wouldn’t be in the best interest of obozoids.
“The inauguration for the nation’s first African-American elected president”….
Enough. Barack Obama IS NOT “African-American”. He is mulatto. This piece would be more correct if it started out by stating, “The inauguration for the nation’s first blatantly anti-American elected president”….
Not nearly the turnout numbers that the 49 gun rallies turned out!
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