Park Service Crowd Estimate: 300,000 – 1.2 mil

By: ehud (Diary)  |  September 13th at 02:01 AM  | 

USA Today published this graphic illustrating how the park service estimates crowds and showing the crowd sizes for various inaugural ceremonies: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-01-19-crowd_N.htm Based on images like this: http://reason.com/blog/show/136041.html it seems the crowd stretched from the captiol almost to the Washington Monument. I saw a better image showing that earlier, but I can’t find it now. So, if the crowd today was as dense as a | Read More »