Two BART lines are down this morning and there is a major delay to all trains headed into and out of San Francisco, according to the transit agency.
BART posted several service alerts this morning, notifying riders about the problems. They include:
- No Green Line service. The Green Line runs from Berryessa/North San Jose through the southern part of the East Bay and Oakland until heading into San Francisco.
- No Red Line Service. The Red Line starts in Richmond, runs through Berkeley and other parts of the northern East Bay before heading into San Francisco.
- A major delay to train lines going into and out of San Francisco “due to a power issue between Powell and Embarcadero stations.”
The problems are impacting almost every train line. Only the Yellow Line is passing through the Transbay Tube, requiring riders from most East Bay locations to transfer to the Yellow Line in Oakland if headed to the West Bay.
BART’s system map. Credit: courtesy of BART
Additionally, BART is notifying riders that the process of adding value to Clipper Cards at vending machines is glitchy. To successfully add value, the agency recommends “holding your Clipper card (not tapping) at the reader, then swipe payment/insert cash, select value, and then HOLD the Clipper card again until the transaction is done. Thank you for your patience.”
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Before joining The Oaklandside as News Editor, Darwin BondGraham was a freelance investigative reporter covering police and prosecutorial misconduct. He has reported on gun violence for The Guardian and was a staff writer for the East Bay Express. He holds a doctorate in sociology from UC Santa Barbara and was the co-recipient of the George Polk Award for local reporting in 2017. He is also the co-author of The Riders Come Out at Night, a book examining the Oakland Police Department’s history of corruption and reform.
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