About 300 came the first day, but traffic slowed to a trickle on the second and third days, and walking into the Hyatt seemed like entering a hotel in Beijing, since Asians far outnumbered Americans.
While Matute said he hasn't seen definitive research studying the effects of L.A. Unified's first day on traffic, he estimates that there are probably "a percent or two more Angelenos on the road this week than there were last week".
Most cars appeared to be following the rules on the first day of implementation, with traffic a trickle compared to the usual rush-hour chaos.
We did a Russian version of our MH17 report and the first day 50percentt of our traffic was for the Russian version.
Planning for that kind of capacity can be tricky, experts say, because if the government spends vast amounts of resources accommodating first-day traffic, its databases could sit idle a week later.
Central New Hampshire FIRST DAY Franconia Ridge is heavily trafficked, but it has spectacular views of the rugged White Mountains, which is why it is recommended by Rob Burbank, the public affairs director of the Appalachian Mountain Club.
"They were saying what a nice place it must be to live and how accommodating the people here are," he said of the movie's crew, noting that one of the Columbia people asked him, 'How do you get all your drivers to stop and let people cross the street?' " Bank Street was closed to traffic on the first day of filming.
Certainly we've known for some time that the Two Ferns segment was popular, and that at least on the first day the clip was live, sent traffic to the Healthcare.gov website.
"I had more traffic on my first day of opening than today," he said.
The closures came on Sept. 9, the first day of school in Fort Lee, leading to massive traffic jams as bridge traffic backed up into local streets.
