Hundreds of thousands crowd Metro on Sunday

Published January 18, 2009 5:00am ET



Hundreds of thousands of people took Metro trains downtown Sunday for the We Are One concert, the official opening of the four-day celebration of Barack Obama’s inauguration.

For Metro, the day was a test of the system in advance of Tuesday, when the city expects as many as four times as many people for the actual swearing-in ceremony.

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