I think you are right.
Sunday would be the most likely day to shut down to have a system wide shutdown.
Officials may not want to publicize what they know, as it would certainly work in Trump’s favor during voting today.
Metro has had a LOT of problems lately, and people are disgusted with it. Another fire this week disrupted everything once again. I think the new head of Metro is exercising extreme caution regarding the problems that this most recent incident exposed.
-JT
Some folks in the region are mentioning a recent fire and the announcement last year that there were some serious problems.
There’s a good chance this is related to those two things.
We could still be on the right track, but I’ll let my thoughts take a back seat to the more known problem for now.