
I had no idea what to expect when I made it downtown on Inauguration night. I had seen the 1.8 million people that morning on the mall, a crowd that stretched over twenty blocks from the Capital to the Lincoln Memorial. Just to walk that distance is a feat within itself, but to pack it shoulder to shoulder with people from every sate, and dozens of countries no less, has until now been unheard of. Public transportation had spent the last several months in a state of fear that the worst could happen with so much stress on the buses [...]