Almost seven years to the day of the 9/11 attacks, Metro has evaluated, designed and implemented Emergency Evacuation Maps for their 117 stations. You know, in case there’s an explosion or a dirty bomb (remember those?!) or someone throws up on a train and everyone has to evacuate. Way to be on top on things!

Here is the pdf map for L’Enfant Plaza, the only station that carries four of the five train lines. This would be terrorist target number one, since it would effectively cripple the entire underground system. Plus the fact that it runs under so many government buildings would be extra incentive. The maps show that instead of organizing the available bus lines by bus stop location, they’ve grouped them by their baffling nomenclature (5A, 13G, V7, 905, etc.) so as you’re getting stampeded by people behind you trying to get out, you still can’t find your bus escape route. As if you’re gonna be waiting around for a bus while fire rains down from the sky.