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Please excuse the off topic post.
TrolleyPup, since you work at BART what is your theory on what is
causing the BART trains to get fried?
Apparently the news reports we're getting out here is some type of
electrical surge is frying alot of the BART trains in San Francisco. And they're at a loss to figure out why.
It's not of-topic really. A couple of the images show longhaired employees doing their jobs. Thanks for posting this. I was unaware of this.
Ted
Hi Ted,
Yes, looking through the images I did see a couple longhairs so sorta ontopic ;) LOL Cheers
Does that mean San Francisco has more than one transit authority?
I live in California but not San Francisco so I might be giving
you false information but I believe that Muni is for the city
of San Francisco and BART (which stands for bay area rapid
transit I think) serves multiple cities located around the San
Francisco Bay.
Yes, MUNI stands for San Francisco Municipal Railway (I think... but the point is that it is the public transportation system (all buses, streetcars, trolleys, etc.) that operate within the city limits of San Francisco.
BART is the abbreviated "Bay Area Rapid Transit", which covers a much larger area, connecting San Francisco with many other different cities and suburbs (like: Oakland, Berkeley, Hayward, Fremont, Concord, Dublin/Pleasanton, Milbrea, Daly City, Richmond...)
Intercity: Amtrack
Regional: BART - subway
Subregional: ACE & Caltrain - commuter rail; Golden Gate Transit - bus
County: SF Muni, Samtrans (San Mateo cty), AC Transit (Alameda & Contra Costa cty), VTA, etc...
Subcounty and City: lots and lots.
Transit here is balkanized.
As to why the thyristors are being toasted, I have no idea.
Hey Trolleypup,
That's a brand new word for me, "balkanized" (I even had to look it up in the Dictionary - LOL); but now that I know what it means, yes, that makes sense.
In WEBSTER'S AMERICAN FAMILY DICTIONARY, their definition says:
"to divide (a country, area, etc.) into small, often quarrelsome states." -- which brings me to a question... Do the different Bay Area transit companies quarrel much with each other? Curious minds want to know! (LOL)
- Ken
Not as much as they used to, but there is a lot of cold shoulders and passive aggressive behavior.
You'd think that in the interest of saving money and avoiding overlap that they would combine all this into one entity.
Apparently the Thyristors are $1,000 each and it's and it's effected 80 cars.