Inauguration Day in the DC Area: How Jan. 20 Will Affect You
With the holidays over with, we in the D.C. area can now turn our sights to the spectacle that Inauguration Day will be on Jan. 20, and specifically how it's going to affect our lives with hundreds of thousands of outsiders flooding into the area.
Donald Trump's inauguration is going to have a profound effect on the area, and it will certainly disrupt the lives of locals. Since it falls on Friday, many people will be working while it's going on. Inauguration Day is a federal holiday, but not a public holiday, meaning that only federal employees in D.C. will observe it, although many private employers in the D.C. area will undoubtedly have employees telecommute if possible.
Here's what you can expect as far as transportation in both the District and the surrounding area on Friday, Jan. 20.
Traffic will be a mess: While the expected attendance of Donald Trump's inauguration at 800,000 pales in comparison to the 1.8 million people who showed up to see President Barack Obama be inaugurated back in 2009, that's a huge number of people to flood into the D.C. area. As a result, expect traffic to be terrible not just in D.C. but area-wide. So avoid I-66, I-270, I-95 and all the other major highways if you can.
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