Metro has submitted its numbers for the day. Metro is the name of the municipal train service. They accurately count the number of passengers by tickets sold and turnstile count. By 1:00 PM they had transported 207,000 riders into downtown DC. 334,000 was the eventual number reached
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Metro count does not include private buses, cars or people who arrived the night before and stayed in Hotels within walking or cab rides to the downtown rally. DC has over 31,500 hotel rooms and more in neighboring cities in Virginia and Maryland, easy cab ride.
OP's private company that gave the low number has not explained where hundreds of hundreds of thousands of people were hiding while they made their crowd size "guess" or why no local city residents showed up for the rally.
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Metro count does not include private buses, cars or people who arrived the night before and stayed in Hotels within walking or cab rides to the downtown rally. DC has over 31,500 hotel rooms and more in neighboring cities in Virginia and Maryland, easy cab ride.
OP's private company that gave the low number has not explained where hundreds of hundreds of thousands of people were hiding while they made their crowd size "guess" or why no local city residents showed up for the rally.