Metro receives only 35 requests for bus parking, scales back plan

[bijou]

Metro is scaling back its plans to offer parking to more than a thousand buses for the inauguration, citing an apparent lack of interest.
Although as many as 10,000 buses are predicted to bring more than 500,000 people to the region for the historic Jan. 20 swearing in of Barack Obama as president, Metro officials said Tuesday they had received just 35 requests from charter buses. Now the transit system will open nearly all of its 60,000 parking spots to cars instead.

 Examiner File “We’re just a small part of the parking to be available for charter buses,” said Metro spokeswoman Angela Gates. “And we really wanted to make as many spaces available to motorists and local residents.”

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http://www.dcexaminer.com/local/010709-Metro_receives_only_35_requests_for_bus_parking_scales_back_plan.html

Looks like the toilet allocation the DUmmies were complaining about will be about right.

[Chris_]

None of that will matter if we can get the VRWC weather control satellite working properly...and dump about 3' of snow on DC on Jan 19-20.