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Entire Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system was down about 4 hrs this morning for "train control problem" leaving thousands of commuters scrambling for ride-shares, buses etc., to get to work this morning.

BART claimed it was not a cyber attack, just some random glitch.
 
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Did they add new rolling stock?
System wide shutdowns were once a feature of Vancouver's Sky Train system each time new rolling stock was added.
 
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Supposedly not; there was supposedly a problem "powering up" the control system during morning startup, since they shutdown at midnight every day.
 
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But don't worry, in sure "safety is their top priority".
 
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I had to do a power reset the other day when the aircraft didn't come up clean.

There is usually a solar storm occurring when it happens to me. Need to dump the ground power earth for 2 mins then power up off batteries and start the APU and she will come up clean.
 
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It took BART aboutg 4 hr to getting running, so probably a bit more complicated, but they've been very mum about everything, I think
 
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The good news is that very few people use BART anymore so the disruption wasn't very noticeable overall.
 
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After all of the "improvements" they've made in recent years, that's down from 400k/day.
 
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