Bottom Line: Expect Tough Traveling Jan. 20
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With the exception of the weather forecast, we now have much of the information we need to plan Jan. 20 travel routes. Transportation and security strategies fell into place this past week. It's mostly a question of absorbing the information and deciding what to do about it.
This letter came in Thursday.
Dear Dr. Gridlock:
I would like to go downtown on Inauguration Day but it looks from all the closed bridges that they do not want Virginians down there.
That's okay, I'll just take a bus! I have my handy dandy 3Y [Lee Highway to Farragut Square] and it will whisk me downtown over the buses-only bridges. (Smart!) But I look and look and Metro says they are running Saturday schedules, which means no 3Y.
Tell me, why would they close the bridges to everything but buses and then not run them? Virginians have fewer options than anybody else. Have you heard anything different?
-- Siobhan Mueller Arlington
Yes, Virginia, there is a way to get to Washington, but it won't be easy.
The same day the letter arrived, the transit authority announced it would run frequent bus service along the roadways and bridges that had just been cleared for heavy transit use. Many bus routes will indeed be on Saturday schedules, but this has freed up buses to provide extra service where demand is likely to be highest.
