Posted on 12/07/2008 1:54:09 PM PST by muawiyah
WASHINGTON -- Plan on taking Metrorail to the inaugural ceremonies on Jan. 20? Be ready to hit the stairs.
The transit agency says it expects to shut down and lock numerous escalators at high volume stations on the day of the inauguration. ..................... Metrorail is preparing to carry upwards of 1 million riders on inauguration day, a mark that will easily shatter the all time record high of 854,638 riders set this past summer.
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The one at Archives-Navy Memorial is just as steep, if not more so.
I once saw someone run up the down escalator at Roslyn—and he made it to the top!
And yet my K Street employer has not conceded the reality that we will not be able to get to work that day. Our office is still expected to be open. I'm hoping common sense sets in sometime before the 20th.
Your K street employer had best plan to house you overnight, provide you catered meals and cots, and pay you overtime if you are supposed to be there inauguration day/
They can’t pay me enough to be stuck in the middle of that riot. I think as the day gets closer, they’ll smarten up - they’re just stuck in Christmas mode now. Since the 19th is MLK day, people will have four days to arrive at the Mall. I’ve driven to California in less.
People are going to be coming from all over the country and pitching tents on the Mall, or just sleeping in their illegally-parked cars, to get good spots. The police will remove the first few hundred, but they’re going to be overwhelmed. Then the riots start.
I refuse to watch one second of that charade. It will be no more meaningful to me than a bunch of people dressing up to perform a play on stage. I won’t even be tempted to peek, unless it’s to laugh at whatever get-up Michelle and the other relatives show up in. Oh wait!—there ARE no “other relatives.” All have disappeared . . .
I’m a photographer and can’t resist not going. Its going to be a disaster, and disasters make for good photos.
I think a BETTER bet is to watch it on TV. . .
Rosslyn is also across the river in Virginia, with no good way from there to DC by foot. Methinks they’re talking the downtown stations. . .
The rest rooms won’t handle 5x record capacity well. But that’s ok. It will just make Pelosi feel at home.
Reid will probably have to wear a face mask that day to help eliminate the body odor he so hates to have around the Capitol buildings.
*Metrorail is noteworthy for being short on toilets. The designers didn’t want nasty old toilets messing things up so they didn’t build many of ‘em.*
It’s probably good that they didn’t include a lot of facilities. God only knows what would end up happening in a DC Metro toilet.
As for the escalators being turned off. When I lived in the area, some dude had a heart attack walking up one of the escalators in May or June.
I used to laugh when I would see the up escalator off or broken and the down escalator would be in good working order. Uh, hello?
I have a room reserved for 99.00. I booked back in February. I haven’t canceled it yet, I’m still waiting to see if I get tickets. My brother received 2. He’s probably not going, because there are 4 in the family.
And that is why I am leaving the DC area around Inauguration Day.
With that many people, the temptation for a Mumbai-style attack is high. I don’t think they’ll try a sea attack, but there will be loads of hotels filled with tourists.
Escalators cannot break; they can only become stairs...Mitch Hedberg
Tickets? Tickets? We don’t need no steekin’ tickets! You stand alongside Pennsylvania Avenue and watch the parade. With a large crowd coming in folks are not going to find the Capitol Hill activity much to their liking.
Northern Virginia you just strap on and step out.
Only way the Islamofascist pukes will attack around here is from a distance, by remote or through mentally ill Arabs.
I am pretty aware of it, living in the area. However, most of the people coming in aren’t going to be armed.
Their black; they’re coming to DC; they know they have to be armed.
Yea, me too. Heading to Vegas for the week.
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