Inaugural Traffic

there's a good article in today's Washington Post by a columnist recounting his participation in President Eisenhower's inauguration in 1953.    It's striking how much more open and less fearful this society was in those days – there is no question that the terrorists have won.   On the other hand, the DC police marching band is no longer likely to parade by the reviewing stand playing "Dixie," so we are still a better society in many ways.

Are people already lining up for the good spots?

For what it's worth, my mom mentioned traffic should be fine through the weekend. (i.e., no specific road closures she's aware of yet, so you don't have to rely on metro / buses just yet and visitors to the area seem to be coming in on Saturday [if Friday arrival will be in the evening/night]…she's not the expert, but she's coordinating events for her office, so she's pretty up to speed. Yet, if you run into problems please don't blame Mama Tee and her predictions!;))

Traffic has been pretty hideous in DC for the last week – in addition to blocking off H Street because of Obama's Dubya-forced hotel stay, there seems to be way more people in town already.  Plus there's a lot of random stuff going on that couldn't have been worse-timed, like the closing of the 12th Street Tunnel for repairs.

and the closure of 16th all the way from M to the White House this morning … i love walking to work  ;D

Hoya, sounds like we have the same commute – at least that part of it…

Doctor wrote:
there's a good article in today's Washington Post by a columnist recounting his participation in President Eisenhower's inauguration in 1953.    It's striking how much more open and less fearful this society was in those days – there is no question that the terrorists have won.   On the other hand, the DC police marching band is no longer likely to parade by the reviewing stand playing "Dixie," so we are still a better society in many ways.

ahh yes. . .getting rid of dixie. . .once more, showing your progressive intolerance. . .

what's wrong with dixie?  i mean, it was one of abraham lincoln's favorite songs, and was written by a guy from Ohio.

i bet you'd support cleaning up "huck finn" because of all those racist slurs. . .how dare mark twain write in the vernacular of the time; shouldn't he have known that 50 years later those terms would be considered racist.  i mean, come on…….

also, i bet eisenhower neved had to deal with spoiled rich kids throwing eggs at him because he wasn't riddled by white guilt.

man, youre easily offended

Oil, meet Water!

Venerable wrote:
what's wrong with dixie? 

There is the whole blackface thing, which has run its course….

But I can see why you would want to protect your cultured southern heritage (of South San Jose?) by claiming that it no longer represents the blackface minstrels it was once written for and now represents the heritage of the south in the Civil War which should not be forgotten.

I would argue that if you want to sing Dixie, don't lose the war next time, but I think I'm in the minority by holding that view, so instead folks argue on behalf of political correctness…

i was going to say why not also sing god save the queen, but i didnt feel like a circular argument over a flip comment

Venerable wrote:

Doctor wrote:
there's a good article in today's Washington Post by a columnist recounting his participation in President Eisenhower's inauguration in 1953.    It's striking how much more open and less fearful this society was in those days – there is no question that the terrorists have won.   On the other hand, the DC police marching band is no longer likely to parade by the reviewing stand playing "Dixie," so we are still a better society in many ways.

ahh yes. . .getting rid of dixie. . .once more, showing your progressive intolerance. . .

what's wrong with dixie?  i mean, it was one of abraham lincoln's favorite songs, and was written by a guy from Ohio.

i bet you'd support cleaning up "huck finn" because of all those racist slurs. . .how dare mark twain write in the vernacular of the time; shouldn't he have known that 50 years later those terms would be considered racist.  i mean, come on…….

also, i bet eisenhower neved had to deal with spoiled rich kids throwing eggs at him because he wasn't riddled by white guilt.

Venerable Bede wins "Uptight Twat of the Week" award for this post…

MindCage wrote:
From what I've seen/read the answer is no. They're not equipped to run 24 hours with all the track maintenance they do. Now, from what I've heard, they might extend it to weekend hours.

Monday and Tuesday, they'll be running metro until 2am.

if anybody is interested, here is a link to the washington post's "surviving the inaguration."  enjoi.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/inauguration-central/