Washington city officials say U.S. President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration will cause many logistical problems, including where to park 10,000 buses.
The thousands of chartered buses will pour into Washington for Obama’s Jan. 20 swearing-in ceremony, and the sheer size of the fleet — which will be carrying as many as 500,000 people — is posing a huge challenge for municipal officials.
Officials are estimating that 2 million to 4 million people will attend the inauguration and one of the questions is where to park the buses. With widespread street closures in downtown Washington, they won’t be able to drop off passengers at events, so officials have to find a central place for them to gather. But once that is determined, it will affect the city’s Metro system when the bus passengers try to squeeze on to public transit.
Washington City’s…call center staff has begun contacting hundreds of bus companies to ask about bookings and by the end of the week, they hope a statistical sampling will come up with a firm number of expected buses.
It’s gonna be worse than going to the shopping mall the day before Giftmas.
I hope Joe Biden’s prediction doesn’t happen with that many people packed into a small area…
Any predictions on the number of people who will be crushed to death at the inauguration?
Good place to be a suicide bomber.
You know, #1 – I’ll bet you do…
Re # 2:
Yeah, it would be prime pickings for suicide bombers. I wouldn’t be surprised to see several of them set themselves off in the crowd just as Obama starts his speech. And, NO, I don’t know that that IS going to happen, but if Hollywood was doing a fictional movie on such an event, that’s exactly the time they’d choose. It’s just common sense. I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near DC on inauguration day.
I’ll be very surprised if any suicide bombers are able to penetrate the vast security net that will be in place. Washington DC has the Metropolitan Police, the National Park Police, the Federal Protective Service, the Secret Service, the FBI, the Postal Inspectors, the Washington Area Transit Authority Police, the Housing and Urban Development Police, military police (Army, Navy and Air Force)and all of the various police forces of the adjoining juristictions. Anyone who has ever had their daily commute interrupted by a presidential motorcade can attest to the fact that there may be more police in Washington than citizens.
And there will be checkpoints.
# 5 John E. Quantum said, “I’ll be very surprised if any suicide bombers are able to penetrate the vast security net that will be in place.”
Yeah, a million people will be searched by hand. LOL
Just the first of many nightmares for Obama, the current situation in Illinois not withstanding.
So any bets that the new President/messiah Obama will walk on the reflecting pool on the way to the white house
#6 – Paddy-RAMBO
>>Yeah, a million people will be searched
>>by hand. LOL
Do you imagine that the “vast security net” consists of nothing more than hand-searching people? LOL! LOLOLOL! ROTFLMAO!
Good think you’re a Radio Shack counter boy. If you were in charge of security for anyone, they’d be dead before they had their Special K in the morning.
Uh-oh. President-elect Obama to nominate Nobel prize-winning physicist Steven Chu as Secretary of Energy. Global warming activist! Global warming activist! Tin-foil hat wearer!
I guess this is where the president-elect starts pandering to the left. Skeee-daddy!!
Whatever his security is now, he better DOUBLE it!
# 9 Mister Mustard said, “Do you imagine that the “vast security net” consists of nothing more than hand-searching people?”
If not, they’ll never know what all those people are carrying. Especially, under winter clothing. Thus, the net, is a joke.
Uh, people litter. You’ll know what they were carrying by looking at the ground.
I can’t wait to see the mass self-soiling as the ecstasy hit it’s peak. I also wonder how many will fall to the ground and start speaking in tongues.
#7 – So right you are. The entertainment is just starting. This fine blog will have plenty of material for the next few years. 😉
Hey four years ago the liberal media was filled with stories about the excess of Bush’s inauguration parties, spending a hundred million dollars while America was at war and had a deficit. I’m sure they’re going to run the same stories now right? And liberals are just as angry about these parties too right?
“I am a skeptic…Global warming has become a new religion.” – Nobel Prize Winner for Physics, Ivar Giaever.
It’s worth it if Chu holds to his belief that ethanol is a waste of time. Ask him about this at the confirmation hearings. If he switches, then he’s a political hack.
Having spent a lot of time in DC the last few years I can say it would be easy to get a few nasty people into the crowds there for the big orgasm.