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January 16th, 2009
 | 06:05 pm - inaugural notes and more
Inaugural notes:
From the "Commemorative Guide to Riding Metro during the Presidential Inauturation Weekend":
On Jan. 20, Inauguration Day:
-- Archives and Smithsonian Stations will be completely closed.
-- You will not be allowed to cross Pennsylvania Avenue, on foot or any other way.
-- Everyone coming to inaugural events will go through security screening. Prohibited are: bicycles, backpacks and large bags, laser pointers, large signs and posters, animals other than guide animals, and alcohol.
-- No large coolers, containers or bicycles will be allowed on trains all weekend.
-- No restrooms will be available. [ Note: Metro doesn't have restrooms for the public anyway.]
From The Washington Post, Wed. Jan. 14, 2009, p. B2:
Some Stations to be Entrance- or Exit-Only
Several Metro stations will have entrances that are entrance- or exit-only on Inauguration Day to move as many people as possile into and out of the system, officials said.
These five stations will ahve some entrances that are exit-only and some entrances that are entry-only: Stadium-Armory on the Blue/Orange line, Metro Center on the Red and Blue/Orange lines, Farragut North on the Red line, Gallery Place-Chinatown on the Red and Yellow/Green lines, L'Enfant Plaza on the Blue/Orange and Yellow/Green lines, and Union Station on the Red line.
These five stations, all on the Blue and Orange lines, are exit-only from 4-10:30 a.m.: Federal Triangle, Federal Center SW, FArragut West, Capitol South and McPherson Square.
In addition, Metro official sare urging riders not to transfer at Metro Center, Gallery Place or L'Enfant Plaza in anticipation of unprecedented crowds on that day. Reducing transfers at these key hubs will ease congestion, officials said. For a complete listing of stations designated as exit- or entrance-only on Jan. 20, go to www. wmata.com/about_metro/news/.
And they expect people to get somewhere downtown when they won't allow them to change trains?
One of the children who has been kept at Guantanamo for a third of his life is to be released.
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Helen Thomas on the Bush presidency.
The Senate passes the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.
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