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Greenbelt Metro Station Gets Huge Crowds for Saturday's Women's March [PHOTOS]
Throngs of pink-clad demonstrators formed lines around the block at Reston Station this weekend.
GREENBELT, MD — An estimated 500,000 people descended on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on Saturday for the Women's March on Washington, and the Greenbelt Metro station in Prince George's County was absolutely slammed all day by the huge volume of traffic.
Extra long lines and extended waits were reported at the Metro stop, and pictures shared on social media showed hundreds if not thousands of people waiting in line just to get on a train in Greenbelt to attend the event.
Metro even shut down parking at the stations in the D.C. area after they filled up well before the event started.
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You can view some of those pictures below.
Line at the Greenbelt metro is at least a half mile long #WomensMarch pic.twitter.com/CKd4qbkpKr
— Courtnye Koivisto (@courtnyekoi) January 21, 2017
The line at the Greenbelt Metro Station. Most of it, anyway. #WomensMarch pic.twitter.com/rP1X3I9YJV
— Skip Tognetti (@togneter) January 21, 2017
Md. State Police confirms they closed I-495 exit to Greenbelt Metro station (exit 24) for ~2 hrs this morning: "Just too many people."
— Martine Powers (@martinepowers) January 21, 2017
RT @_EllenBryan: The line at the Greenbelt #METRO station has been long all morning. #WomensMarch pic.twitter.com/veViuDPcG8
— WUSA9 (@wusa9) January 21, 2017
Waiting in massive line to get on Greenbelt Metro for Women's March https://t.co/b0eMboYR9L
— melissaburch (@melissaburch) January 21, 2017
Image of Women's March on National Mall via Dan Taylor, Patch
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