Photo by Alesa Mackool

It’s always nice to see someone forgoing the use of a car and instead relying on more efficient modes of transportation like bicycles or mass transit. But there are some things in life which require four wheels and a seat. Hauling pieces of furniture, for one.

Or getting away from a bank robbery.

A man who allegedly robbed a Wells Fargo branch on K Street NW about 9:45 a.m. this morning was arrested a few minutes later at the Dupont Circle Metro station after attempting to flee on a Silver Spring-bound Red Line train.

Metro spokesman Dan Stessel says that the Metropolitan Police Department notified the transit agency to halt all the trains at Dupont after the man was spotted entering the station. He was arrested on board without incident and taken back to the street level in handcuffs.