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To: greenspirit who wrote (324444)	9/16/2009 9:22:41 AM
From: Zakrosian	Read Replies (1) of 793931

there's parking all over the city on the weekends. While driving through a few months ago I parked 3 blocks from the Vietnam Memorial and walked over to look at it with the family, two hours later we hopped in the car and left. Additionally, there's two or three large parking lots right near the Capital for tourists to use. Amazing how this issue just doesn't die. You're generally right about the parking - once you get out of the downtown core, you can find spots, in Capitol Hill, the area north of Union Station, etc. And if the crowd is really big, cars just park alongside the GW Parkway. However, there is no way that you can get a huge crowd into the city without either a dramatic increase in Metro usage (which apparently wasn't the case) or huge traffic backups. There were none on Saturday, other than the normal one at the Humpback Bridge. The July 4 Bicentennial celebration drew about a million people - pre- Metro - and the extra traffic added hours to a normally half hour drive. Frankly, I was surprised by the "tens of thousands" turnout. The protest got comparatively little coverage before Saturday.

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