Subway safety shutdown makes for long day WASHINGTON — An unprecedented 29-hour safety shutdown of subways in the nation’s capital inconvenienced hundreds of thousands of people on Wednesday, but despite predictions of “Metromageddon” or “Metropocalypse,” it was hardly the end of the world. Many riders shrugged it off, saying it’s what they’ve come to expect from the aging, troubled Metro system. One popular Twitter feed about the system, @unsuckdcmetro, was running a poll on whether the shutdown would solve “Metro’s flaming cables problem.” Thousands voted, with more than three quarters saying no. “Metro sucks,” said Bob Jones, 26, of Arlington, Virginia, as he waited for a bus.