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brooklynite

(93,834 posts)
Fri Jan 20, 2017, 10:27 AM Jan 2017

Inauguration 2017: Your guide to Metro, road closures, biking, buses and more

Source: Washington Post

Plenty of space at Metro garages, charter bus lots (9:05 a.m.)

Most Metro parking lots and garages were less than half full by 8:30 a.m., the transit agency reported. Only East Falls Church and Van Dorn climbed above 50 percent — with the lots 65 percent full at East Falls and 55 percent at Van Dorn by that time.

Meanwhile at RFK Stadium, where charter buses were staging, 220 buses had applied for permits, according to District Department of Transportation spokesman Terry Owens. The capacity was 1,200. At President Obama’s 2009 inauguration, more than 3,000 charter buses were registered for parking permits in the city.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2017/01/20/inauguration-2017-your-guide-to-metro-road-closures-biking-buses-and-more/?hpid=hp_hp-bignews6_guide-6am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

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Inauguration 2017: Your guide to Metro, road closures, biking, buses and more (Original Post) brooklynite Jan 2017 OP
Weather Forecast in DC northoftheborder Jan 2017 #1
Nothing But Shade erpowers Jan 2017 #2

northoftheborder

(7,566 posts)
1. Weather Forecast in DC
Fri Jan 20, 2017, 10:32 AM
Jan 2017

The Weather Channel shows a solid green mass of rain moving in over the noon hour - about 11-2!!!!!

erpowers

(9,350 posts)
2. Nothing But Shade
Fri Jan 20, 2017, 10:54 AM
Jan 2017

The Washington Post was throwing nothing but shade at Donald Trump. How many times did it need to point out the seemingly low attendance of this inauguration? For the first half of the article all the writers did was point out how few people were attending the Trump inauguration. They did everything they could to point out that there was not an over abundance of people in Washington, D.C. today. They kept pointing out how the street were mainly empty even though on a normal day the street would be packed. They also kept pointing out how the park and ride stations were mainly empty today. It seemed like they were trying to say Washington, D.C., on a normal day, is more packed than it is today for the Trump inauguration.

I really believe the article was written that way on purpose. I am not upset at how the article was written; I just think it did not have to be written that way. Therefore, I think the Washington Post writers were throwing nothing but shade at Donald Trump due to the small amount of people who seemed to be going to his inauguration.

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