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The RFK stadium parking lots are the staging grounds for many big events on the Mall. When RFK is finally torn down and the area repurposed (after the new DC United stadium is built on Buzzard Point), possibly within two or three years, it will be a big logistical change. We might even have to weight attendance figures for with-RFK and post-RFK events. Once the RFK parking lots are (we hope) turned into a park and youth athletic fields, there will simply be no place within walking distance of the Mall where tens of thousands of people can disembark, and where their rides can wait. The neighborhood might even get a break from the non-stop marathons we endure every spring.

Anyhow, we had a steady stream of marchers flowing from RFK through the neighborhood yesterday morning, and I drove past RFK on my way out of town yesterday about 10:00. The marchers actually looked better than the usual left-wing crowd. And almost all the signs we saw were home-made and hand lettered. The usual SEIU Morlock crew with matching garb and professionally printed signage was noticeably absent. Most of the women were relatively young. They were reasonably attractive. A few dragged their dweeby boyfriends along, and there were more rainbow signs than there were kids, which is understandable for a leftist march. Maybe the bad element chose somewhere other than RFK to stage, but from the eastern periphery, this was an ok crowd.