Closings and Cancellations


All non-military airplane traffic in the United States was grounded, and the
stock exchange on Wall Street was closed until Monday, September 17. The
White House, the UN headquarters, the Sears Tower in Chicago, the
Transamerica building in San Francisco, the Renaissance Center in Detroit,
are evacuated, along with parts of Washington, D.C., and New York City and
many other private and public buildings.

National landmarks across the United States, including the Washington
Monument and the Statue of Liberty, closed, as did the Virginia State
Capitol. The Supreme Court closed; Justices were taken into protective
custody, as were various senators and congressmen. Heightened security remains

All train service through Union Station was suspended. All schools in
Maryland closed.

Broadway theater shows were cancelled until Thursday evening. They resumed
with dimmed marquees.

Disneyland and Walt Disney World were closed.

Most major US sporting events were cancelled until the Monday following,
including Major League Baseball, the National Football League games, and
NASCAR events.

Air traffic was suspended until Thursday. First stranded planes were allowed
to go to their intended destinations, then limited service resumed. On
Thursday night the New York area airports (JFK, La Guardia, Newark) were
closed again, and were reopened Friday morning.

Reagan airport (in Washington, D.C.) is still closed one week after the attack.

Beginning September 27, one-occupant cars were banned from crossing into
Lower Manhattan from Midtown on weekday mornings, in an effort to relieve
some of the crush of traffic in the city (the morning rush hour was lasting
from 5:30 AM to noon), caused largely by the increased security measures put
in place.

The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, a meeting of the heads of
state of the nations of The Commonwealth to be held in Brisbane, Australia,
was postponed (As of November 2001, it has been rescheduled to March 2002
and moved to a holiday resort outside Brisbane involving a more restricted
program). The organisers of the meeting claimed the cancellation was not so
much a fear of terrorist attack on the meeting itself, but a desire by many
Commonwealth leaders to stay at home in case of any further crisis-making
world events (such as the commencement of overt military action in
Afghanistan or elsewhere).

Greyhound closed nationwide bus service at 7:45 AM EDT on October 3, after a
man slit the throat of a bus driver, causing the bus to crash, killing four
passengers.