SFPD Chases Suspect Through BART Tunnels Monday Night Causing Major Delays

Were you stuck on an massively crowded platform or on an unmoving BART train during your evening commute last night? Here's why. Police pursued a robbery suspect who decided to run through the BART tunnel from 24th Street to Glen Park Station around 5:30 p.m., leading to all service being shut down between those two stations for about 35 minutes, as KTVU reports. That suspect was ultimately caught and in custody as of 6:15, but that's not where BART's troubles ended.

As the Chron reports, a subsequent medical emergency involving a seizure aboard a train at 24th Street at 6:40 p.m. further complicated matters. That passenger had to be unloaded from the train before it could proceed.

AND another train at 24th Street had a mechanical issue at right about the same time and had to be taken out of service. The Examiner says there were half-hour delays through the system until about 8 p.m.

So, yes, if you were trying to get anywhere in San Francisco last night, or if you were traveling to the East Bay when all service shut down between 5:30 and 6, you were pretty screwed. But it was not really BART's fault.