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To: greenspirit who wrote (324444)	9/16/2009 9:22:41 AM
From: Zakrosian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793955

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.

To: greenspirit who wrote (324444)	9/16/2009 11:30:23 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793955

There's not that many spots, I took a relative down there in May, we drove around for an hour to get one. and why drive when the metro drops you off right on the Mall. If you are gonna park north of Union Station you will have a good chance of being mugged. Most parking spots are taken by the tourists, you just don't get a crowd that big without the subway and the numbers were too small. I'll go with my Brother you is a retired DC cop and worked the mall for 8 years. He would know, that was his job