BART Blames Heat, Aging Equipment for Tuesday Meltdowns in Daly City

Friday Morning Constitutional: BART Blames Heat, Aging Equipment for Fire

BART officials blamed an overtaxed HVAC system and Tuesday's heat for the Daly City substation fire; a Foster City man won't face charges for setting his condo complex on fire; and it looks like the Niners' sleep and travel strategy paid off.

BART Says Aging Infrastructure to Blame for Substation Fire, Days of Delays

A faulty cable and an aging substation were responsible for a substation fire that caused major delays through Thursday morning.

BART blames heat, aging equipment for Tuesday meltdowns in Daly City

A BART operations official told the agency’s governing board Thursday that aging power equipment was to blame for Tuesday’s Daly City substation fire, which broke out just as BART engineers were scrambling to deal with a rash of apparent heat-related train-control system meltdowns in the same area. At a briefing of the agency’s governing board, BART Operations Manager Sylvia Lamb...

Old equipment, extreme heat lead to fire that caused major BART system problems

Aging equipment and extreme heat helped spark a fire at a BART substation Tuesday night, the effects of which continue to plague the system, a top agency manager said Thursday. BART’s Assistant General Manager of Operations Sylvia Lamb told the transit agency’s board of directors at their regular meeting that the fire started after an […]