Originally Posted by noglider

To add insult to injury, I came upon huge numbers of police barriers and police officers. They had shut down the multi use path along the river that is my route, and they had shut down part of the highway alongside that. I realized it was because President Trump was on his way into town in a helicopter, and the heliport is on the river at 30th St. I had to slowly snake through crowds of pedestrians and snarled traffic that resulted from the shutdown. There might have been thousands of officers stationed there. It's a rather dramatic scene, and I wasn't happy to find myself there.