Looks more like at least 500,000 people showed up.
And for every person who was there yesterday, there were many who couldn’t attend in person but were there in spirit.
I think so too
I will offer this wisdom. I live in Arlington and use the METRO system daily. At 0745, I tried to enter the blue line from the Pentagon to DC....to attend the rally. The 10-car train pulls in and it’s crammed full. Whatever I’ve experienced at rush-hour during the week...it’s 30 percent more than that.
Somehow, the folks push enough, and I actually get onboard. I counted....there were around 300 folks in that car. You could not move and barely could breathe. So the train was hauling 3,000 folks in my humble opinion. The very next stop was the Cemetery, and about half the folks got off. This exit took three minutes, which was very untypical for the METRO to stand till that long. We all proceeded out and it took a good twenty minutes to get out of the station and up on the road to walk out. In front of me....at least 4k folks walking (0800).
I got to the Memorial and by 0900 had circled the entire pool. I would say at that point...100k folks where there. There were at least 10k folks arriving every ten minutes by bus or just walking in from the METRO from that point on.
By 1000, standing out by the WW II site....and to the rear of the Washington Memorial....I’d say 10k folks were seated there, and easily 250k around the pool.
The funny thing is that you could see this line of folks still walking in from the Smithsonian METRO station (figure at least 5k from the top of the hill down).
I started leaving around 1200...heading toward the Smithsonian, and met another 10,000 folks still walking in. At the METRO station....trains were still pulling in with full cars (the late folks).
Bottom line? METRO was overwhelmed. If these CBS folks want to claim 85k there...fine...then that totally overwhelmed the METRO system. Frankly, I don’t buy that and if you ask METRO folks to admit how many tickets they sold that day....that might be a more realistic figure to use in estimates. My humble guess is that it came between 250k and 300k total for the day at the rally.
all areas 800 thousand to 1 million...
all areas 800 thousand to 1 million...and how long was this event planned?