Well they keep blocking streets around DC and shunting traffic this way and that with little rhyme or reason. I noticed that they allow bike and pedestrian use of many of the blocked streets, if they don't even allow bikes and peds its a clue that the big O is going to use the street. Yesterday I planned to come across the bridge from Arlington Cemetery but they had it totally closed even though the schedule said open... Later I heard Obama had done something at the Cemetery. The downtown is crawling with Pedicabs. Some out of town company must have smelled profit and brought a bunch in, DC doesn't really have many. They had scheduled to allow bike access on the trains for all weekend except the 20th. I checked with metro and with the supervisors before planning to bring my bike aboard. Then, yesterday they called the cops after us for having bikes. I double checked but I should have triple checked- metro changed its mind. I had planned to travel with inexperienced cyclists. I could do the distance but not everyone could. Apparently they won't allow bikes in a huge section of DC around the national mall "for security reasons"? Tomorrow I'll have to ride several miles around to get to where I want, I'm not even sure which bridges will be open to bikes, the story keeps changing. I'll just have to try each bridge one by one till I find one where the soldiers allow me through.