…Packed with cars mostly with 1-2 people in them. Taken around 1pm.

They reversed the direction of traffic too and its not working out as the Park Service hoped.

Should be closed off to cars completely.

We biked there a couple of hours ago. The cars had to be in traffic for hours to make it around the point.

I rode my bike down there to see what all the hype was about. Complete chaos down there. Totally not worth it imo

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Weird in the past they've closed it to cars during peak bloom.

Ran down there this morning and turned around because it seemed like an accident waiting to happen. It was insanely packed with cars—and while some of the drivers were trying to leave a lane (or at least a few feet) open for foot traffic and cyclists, the other half were abruptly swerving into any open space to try to get around the bumper to bumper traffic. Half the cyclists were going the normal direction even though traffic was reversed. Just a total clusterfuck that was dangerous and not enjoyable to anyone and that could have easily been avoided if they’d just shut down everything past the golf course to cars.

Really? In the past, I remember they ran a shuttle bus to bring people from their parked cars around Hains Point/E Potomac Park to the tidal basin. Even when they closed the tidal basin during 2020, E Potomac Park was still open.

It was the same around 8:30 AM.