Reply #39: Exactly right, and that's what they don't understand. [View All]

In DC, there was no impact whatsoever on Saturday, I guess unless you were trying to drive down Penn Ave to the Capitol, or something. We were out of there by 2pm, with no problems on Metro.

Really funny story: a friend of mine came over to my house to watch a football game that night. He got on the Red Line at Dupont at 4pm and came all the way to Silver Spring (for those that don't know, that trip takes you right through downtown). He made it in his usual time (well, usual time plus the Fort Totten delays, of course). In fact, he had forgotten about the protest until he saw some of the poor souls on the train. He said the trains were pretty full, but it wasn't Tokyo rush hour stuff or anything.

Inauguration crippled DC. So much so that while I was very, very happy, I'll admit I was a little put off. People were EVERYWHERE.