DC Is Shutting Down Metro For 29 Hours So Prepare For a Traffic Apocalypse

If you live in DC , I really hope you get to work from home on Wednesday . Starting at midnight tonight , the nation ’s Washington is close up its entire underground for at least 29 hour for a organisation - wide refuge survey of electrical cables .

TheWashington Post reportsthat the unprecedented gag law is a refuge response to a overseas telegram that caught fire on Monday , triggering massive delays on three train lines .. Over 600 cables will be checked over the next day or so .

Monday ’s incident was similar to one last January , when an electric malfunction near the lead filled a train burrow with smoke , bolt down one rider on a stalled train of respiratory failure . Wednesday ’s shutdown is a guard to avoid a repeat scenario .

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“ While the endangerment to the world is very modest , I can not rule out a potential life safety issue here , and that is why we must take this action mechanism immediately , ” Metro General Manager Paul J. Wiedefeld said in a phone teleconference . “ When I say safety is our high-pitched antecedency , I mean it . That sometimes means making tough , unpopular decisions , and this is one of those times . I amply recognise the grimness this will cause . ”

If any dangerous cables are found that motive altering , this day - long block could be extended .

So where will all of those drivers go if they ca n’t ferment from home ? Many will take to the roads and repel to work , which will make the metropolis ’s terrible , terrible dealings , which issome of the bad dealings in America , even worse .

William Duplessie