When the Red Line was having trouble earlier this year and thousands of commuters were forced to walk downtown from the Van Ness-UDC station, 
WMATA said that public transit riders should have had an alternate plan to get from point A to point B. Then through a new communications strategy, it began stressing that fact more and more.
As Washington is not only a terrorist target and particularly vulnerable to weather-related delays, WMATA has developed a guide to help you plan alternate routes home.
But beware, the instructions seem to be cross between an answering machine instruction manual and a 1040-EZ tax form.
(AP photo of Farragut Square from the Guardian’s Sept. 11, 2001, photo gallery.)
