commuters in chaos
Published March 16, 2016 FoxNews.com
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DC metro to shut down for emergency inspections
The Washington, D.C., Metro subway system will stick to a planned reopening at 5 a.m. Thursday after an unprecedented 29-hour system-wide shutdown for emergency repairs that caused headaches for hundreds of thousands of commuters, the agency's general manager said Wednesday evening.
Capital-area highways were clogged with bumper-to-bumper traffic during rush hour Wednesday, inconveniencing hundreds of thousands of people, ranging from commuters to students.
The shutdown was announced so construction teams could make urgent inspections of electrical components.
"Before 5 a.m., we will finish the immediate repairs for all zones. We will open the system at 5 a.m.," Metro general manager Paul Wiederfeld said at an evening press conference.
