Are you attending the Inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama, on January 20th, 2009, in Washington, DC?

Potential presidential inauguration attendees estimates range from 1 million people, up to 4 million, making hotel rooms that week tough to find (or perhaps more accurately…tough to afford).  Flights in and out of Washington, DC are also more expensive during that week.

Even DC’s Mayor, Adrian M. Fenty mentioned that there could be as many as 3 million attending the inauguration.  

The largest crowd attending an inauguration was  for President Johnson, when close to one million attended the swearing in ceremony.  But the largest event at the National Mall, considered a logistical nightmare, was on July 4, 1976, for the Nation’s Bicentennial celebration. It drew an estimated 1 million people and resulted in hours of public transit and traffic gridlock around the National Mall and surrounding areas.  

But take the poll and let’s see if readers are planning on joining what is expected to be the largest crowd ever to attend not only a presidential inauguration, but any event on the National Mall.

So tell us if you are attending the inauguration — the poll is located in the right hand column —>

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Post from: The DC Traveler