DC Metro Reports Second-Highest Ridership Ever On Women's March Day

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo

By ESME CRIBB Published JANUARY 22, 2017, 12:33 PM EDT

An official estimate from D.C. Metro authority shows that the transit system had its second-busiest day ever on Saturday as crowds from the Women's March streamed into Washington, surpassed only by ridership on the day of President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration.

The number of entries into the Metro on Saturday was second only to the number of entries on Jan. 20, 2009, according to a statement by Metro General Manager Paul J. Wiedefeld cited in a Washington Post report.

On Friday, during President Donald Trump's inauguration, the Metro reported 570,557 entries per the Washington Post. This figure indicates not only a lower ridership than the Metro reported on Saturday but a lower ridership than it reported for either of Obama's inaugurations.

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Metrorail ridership for Sat, Jan 21 = 1,001,616 #wmata
11:03 AM - 22 Jan 2017

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[lark]

1. Ha, cheetoheads,

facts do matter, no matter what hair furor spews.

[CottonBear]

2. Real facts. Thanks DC Metro! N/T

[cstanleytech]

3. I'm sure that Kellyanne will show us that the alternative facts show that the ridership

was down and also that President Trump was giving out pink and purple stripped unicorns filled with candy to orphans in Syria and that he is now adored everywhere in the world because he has solved world peace by bathing the world in the light from the rainbows that shoot out his ass, right Kelly?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Now she says it is not important. tRump thinks that it is important. nt

[IronLionZion]

13. You want some alternative facts?

Mr. Spicer said that Washington’s Metro system had greater ridership on Friday than it did for Mr. Obama’s 2013 inauguration. “We know that 420,000 people used the D.C. Metro public transit yesterday, which actually compares to 317,000 that used it for President Obama’s last inaugural,” Mr. Spicer said.

Neither number is correct, according to the transit system, which reported 570,557 entries into the rail system on Friday, compared with 782,000 on Inauguration Day in 2013.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/22/us/politics/president-trump-inauguration-crowd-white-house.html

The comparison is hilarious and sad and scary. It's like they want to media to be tied up correcting their lies instead of investigating their crimes or asking difficult questions.

[n2doc]

4. But Trumps folks crushed the jacked up pickup truck count! No Contest there!

Bigly!

[groundloop]

5. But tRump supporters were working that day

(of course)


That's what I keep hearing from right wing family members. If the facts don't suit them the right wing just makes shit up to satisfy their fantasies.

[Amimnoch]

7. Logic test for the "working" theorists.

I shut a few of them up with this one, or at least got them to suddenly stop responding:

"Let's assume what you say is true, and the turnout of his inauguration is the result of people having to work. Aren't you really suggesting just how GREAT Obama was for this economy if so much of the ones who supported trump are too busy working to attend his inauguration? Seems to me you royally supported the wrong person if the job situation is so great that nobody who supported Trump can afford the time away from work to go see him get sworn in."

[progree]

11. Interesting Google search: what day of the week was january 20, 2009 (Obama's 1st inaug)

Ans: Tuesday -- in the middle of the work-week.

But tRump supporters were working that day
{sarcasm} of course
That's what I keep hearing from right wing family members.

[JudyM]

8. Strange that a D.C. Metro cop told me with certainty at around 3 yesterday that they were at over a

million. Just strange. He was with a partner in their minivan, on the radio and looking very official, like he was in management.

[Turbineguy]

9. These of course are

alternative facts, given by people who would lie when it's easier to tell the truth.

[ananda]

10. 2009 and 2017

Both historic occasions!

[SunSeeker]

12. K & R for exposure of the real facts.