BART!

For those of you wondering why BART has been almost MUNI-like, it's because of a little software glitch that's throwing everything off. Due to that little glitch, switching equipment is malfunctioning somewhere between Colma and Millbrae and the result is a stopped BART. In order to fix the problem when it occurs, BART drivers have to get out of the train, walk up the tracks and manually switch the thing themselves. The result of the little software problem has been delays up and down the line as trains have been held up anywhere from a few minutes to a full hour. SFist can fully vouch for the problems as we've missed our connections at Millbrae twice in the past week and the only thing that's kept us from having a severe case of Pub Trans Rage is memories of the N Judah.

BART is working on fixing the solution but their running into a little problem in that one the companies that designed the system is out of business. Unlucky. Can't they just run Norton Anti-Virus?

In other BART news, federal officials who are officials of things like this recommended to the federal government that they ixnay plans to give money for a BART extension to San Jose. Thus setting back plans that have been in the works for years and was set to be built by 2012. The government agency, probably made up of people who never have to commute down the 101, is going to tell congress that they’re not sure the South Bay economy can support another public transportation system. Officials did “recommend” money to be flowed to the new Third Street Corridor, which is kind of good considering the city’s already torn up a huge part of the city to build it. See, it pays to have your local congressman be the House Minority Leader.