Crowds of 1 million or more to test D.C.

By 4 a.m. EST Tuesday, lines of riders formed in suburban parking lots for the Metro transit system, which put on extra trains for the expected rush.

By: By NAFEESA SYEED Associated Press Writer | Alabama's13.com
Published: January 20, 2009

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Crowds are streaming into the nation's capital
before dawn as Washington prepares for the inauguration of
President-elect Barack Obama.

By 4 a.m. EST Tuesday, lines of riders formed in suburban
parking lots for the Metro transit system, which put on extra
trains for the expected rush.

But many trains were not overly crowded, and riders seemed to be
in a jubilant mood, despite the early hour. Riding a mostly empty
Metrorail subway train into the capital from nearby Arlington, Va.,
before 5 a.m., Obama activist Akin Salawu of Brooklyn, N.Y., called
the day "the culmination of two years of work."

On the same subway car was world history teacher Calvin Adams of
Arlington, Va., who said he wanted to see history first-hand so
that he could teach it to his classes.