As far as I’m concerned, the inauguration — with its ups and downs — is over. It’s definitely time to move on with the business of getting the economy going again.

But the N&R brings it up again, catching up with former Greensboro transportation manager Terry Bellamy, who was a “key player on the team that made President Barack Obama’s big day run smoothly”:

“It was one of the most complicated events, if not the most complicated, I’ve ever worked,” said Bellamy, the District of Columbia’s associate director of transportation operations for the past year. “The most important thing was to provide great customer service. The whole world was watching the district that day.”

…..”From our side, we got through it without any glitches,” Bellamy said. “We accomplished our goals. We got the people where they needed to go.”

Just last night I was reading Karen Welsh’s Carolina Journal cover story (unposted) on her inauguration experience. Funny, she has a different take. Note the irony that a Greensboro official was one of thousands who didn’t get where they needed to go:

Unfufilled hopes and expectations met thousands of people as freezing temperatures, mismanaged security lines, unruly crowds, limited supplies of toilet paper, and pushed over port-a-pots became the reality of those attending the 2009 Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama.

And that was if a ticket holder was lucky to get past the security gate.

….Greensboro Mayor Yvonne Johnson was one of those unable to make it past the security checkpoint into her section.

“It was something else,” she said. I was a blue ticket holder, and I didn’t get in. We were just pure stuck. We weren’t moving. I think if they had done a better job of planning that this would not have happened.”

I just want to know who was responsible for the toilet paper.