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I?would submit one thought regarding this, based on personnal experience. I 
come from an area where public transit is not used much. There is a bus 
system, but it is small compared to out east. Many of the attendees also came 
from further west. In my case, I would not even have thought of using public 
transit, because I would not have been familiar with it. I suspect that 
Inauguration would have drawn many more from local areas, who would be more 
familiar with DC public transit.



Using Metro ridership, and extrapolating attendance numbers from that, would 
not, in my opinion, be reasonable. If it was only one indicator among many, 
perhaps.



Ray


-----Original Message-----
From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Wed, Sep 16, 2009 6:33 am
Subject: [Homestead] 9/12 Washington crowd estimate




Still no 'official' estimate, but this is a reasonable attempt:
http://blog.heritage.org/2009/09/15/metro-delivers-hundreds-of-thousands-to-912-rally/

I didn't verify any of the metro ridership figures (too busy this morning), 
but using Metro ridership and comparing to the increase in ridership over a 
'normal' Saturday after Labor day,  and extrapolating from the increased 
ridership/estimate of people arriving on buses, etc for the inauguration 
seems reasonable. Their estimate for 9/12 is 313,000 to 433,000 attendees.

Lynn Wigglesworth 

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