[SkateDC] Inaugural Skate -- Post Article

[Susan Burgerman]

vehicle implies a machine that's separate from the human using it, hence the need for parking it. Skatewheels are merely useful things that stick out of our feet, take up no space, need no parking. 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Maureen Cohen Harrington 
  To: WAR 
  Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 1:20 PM
  Subject: [SkateDC] Inaugural Skate -- Post Article


  Today's Post has an article specifically addressing (in the headline!) people wanting to skate to the Inauguration. The article, titled "To Transit Schemers Add Skaters, Paddlers, Pedalers," is available at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/15/AR2009011503834.html?sub=AR

  The article includes the following paragraph:

  Stephanie Morrisette, a wetlands biologist/professional roller derbyist who is flying in for the inauguration from Northern California, checked out the city maps and secure zone restrictions online and saw nothing about good old-fashioned roller skates. "I'm not worried about getting around people or through people, because I deal with that all the time with the crowd at bouts," she said. Her partner, John Henry Dale, will be riding his skateboard to keep up. 

  But I'm still unclear.  Are skaters "wheeled vehicles" included in the ban near the Mall or parade route?  
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