Airbnb, the online room rental service, said on Friday that it has more than 15,100 guests booked in Washington for inauguration weekend. And Uber said it has been working overtime to ensure that its ride-hailing services work smoothly in Washington during inauguration week. Rally, which provided bus transportation to specific events but now lets people make their own routes, said it is bringing 50,000 people to the Women’s March, as well as buses of Trump supporters to Inauguration Day. In 2009, for President Obama’s first inauguration, Airbnb was largely unknown and the practice of paying to sleep in a stranger’s home was relatively uncommon. Women’s March organizers and bus riders have been punctuating their emails to Skedaddle with expressions of relief and heart emojis.

Source: New York Times January 15, 2017 18:35 UTC