commuters in chaos <br />Published March 16, 2016 FoxNews.com <br />Facebook426 Twitter403 livefyre663 Email Print <br /> <br />NOW PLAYING <br />DC metro to shut down for emergency inspections <br />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. <br /> <br />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. <br /> <br />The shutdown was announced so construction teams could make urgent inspections of electrical components. <br /> <br />"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.
