Posted on 01/19/2017 5:49:23 AM PST by COBOL2Java
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to stream into D.C. for Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Security will be tight and many roads will be closed to cars and pedestrians, so you’ll have to do your homework if you want to avoid headaches heading to the Mall or just getting around D.C. on Jan. 20.
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According to Mike Litterst with the National Park Service: “Totes” style umbrellas that collapse will be allowed on the parade route as well as the National Mall for the inauguration. Long, non-collapsible umbrellas will not be allowed on the route or the Mall.”
Inside the ticketed areas, a no-umbrella policy remains in effect.
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I’ll be wearing my go-pro video-concealing day-glo yellow rubber burka festooned with a smiley face, steel-toed dingo boots, and a red MAGA hat....y’all wave at me.
FYI
For future reference, Washington, D.C. needs a major upgrade.
To start with, the entire city needs to be eminent-domained by the federal government. A fair price for all the private and commercial buildings in the city, on an extended plan to gentrify the place over perhaps 50 years.
Once an area of the city, starting with the ghettos, has been taken, it will be bulldozed, and its entire infrastructure from below ground up rebuilt. All its utilities will be put in maintenance tunnels for easy access.
Large parts of the surface will be turned into parkland initially, to both clean the soil and provide for gathering places for the public. Commercial buildings will be provided by lease only. Even the Watergate hotel complex will be government owned and leased.
A critical part of the deal is to ban most private motor vehicle traffic from most of the city, except for VIPs. Small corridors for supply and trash vehicles will be located at the perimeter of the city, away from critical facilities.
This means the emphasis will be on moving people around. This is done with a combination of light rail, buses, and covered moving sidewalks, already popular in large airport concourses. They move pedestrians much faster than walking, so can move a very large number of people a respectable distance quickly.
The end result of all of this will be far fewer criminals about, since there will be no good place for them to hang out. There will be much more public land, needed because of the encroaching numbers of memorials, the city will have much needed infrastructure repair, be far cleaner, yet even more available to the public than it is today.
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