So, How Much Sanity Was There in D.C. Yesterday? (Updated)
When I enlarged the photo of the October 30 rally, it appears to show significant digital artifacts, such as would be seen in an altered image, in the area where the crowd supposedly ended. Since other eye-witness reports indicate that the densely packed crowd extended all the way to the Washington monument, these calculations are highly suspect, at best.
That said, I’m still waiting to see definitive, time-stamped aerial images of the entire mall from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Until we have these, the AirPhotosLive.com analysis is the best we have, and is not inconsistent with DC Metro traffic figures for the dates of the two rallies:
August 28 Metrorail trips: 510,020
October 30 Metrorail trips: 825,437
(Average Saturday Metrorail ridership is typically about 350,000)
