How many people show up for the annual Mifflin Street block party Saturday is anybody’s guess. A lot of it depends on the weather, which right now calls for coolish conditions.
….”It could be a thousand people, it could be 40,000. We have no feel for it at all,” said Madison Police Sgt. Dave McCaw, adding that another factor is the final exam schedule of colleges and universities in surrounding states.
The police are introducing mounted horse patrol to Mifflin Street for the first time in the event’s 38-year history. “They won’t be as much crowd control as they will be crowd management,” McCaw said.