BART System Maintenance Issues Continue

BART which stands for (Bay Area Rapid Transit) has had to deal with multiple equipment and service problems this year. This includes problems with track maintenance, power outages, and derailments. On Friday, two BART trains were delayed due to a power outage, leaving over 200 commuters stranded in the Transbay Tube. There was also a service interruption in October when trains stopped running between Concord and Pleasant Hill. A recent review by KTVU showed a pattern of problems and questions about the reliability of the system's maintenance and service.

In recent months, BART has started to make improvements. The system has been using technology to improve performance. It has created a dashboard to monitor circuit breakers and detect pending equipment failures. This dashboard updates every few seconds. This helps BART predict when equipment will fail and prevent it from impacting service.

The system is linked to ShakeAlert, a federal earthquake early warning system. Seismologists at UC Berkeley have linked the system to the California Integrated Seismic Network to receive an alert if an earthquake occurs. The system uses electronic signals that travel much faster than seismic waves, which means it can send alerts to BART passengers before quakes occur in the Bay Area. If the system detects a quake, train control computers will order service braking. This means that trains will slow down to 26 miles per hour.

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