Metro officials are planning to postpone millions of dollars of system maintenance to take safety steps urged in response to last year’s deadly train crash. The transit agency plans to ask its board of directors on Thursday to allow it to use $15.7 million for pay for the safety steps — money that had been allocated for maintenance equipment in its current capital budget, according to a draft presentation.

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