San Leandro Station had a fire which disrupted everyone
I arrived at Dublin Pleasanton only to hear that there was a fire at San Leandro station. Due to this there wasn't any service from Fremont and Dublin. Only Fruitvale had service. I drove to Fruitvale only to be dealing with a mess of riders facing the same issue. At one point they made about 1000 riders go to the other platform which required going downstairs and crossover back upstairs. After everyone made their way to the other side, a BART employee came up and said they changed the platform! So here we go back to the other platform again! lol I just need to get back to work. They said buses were provided but it takes too long and they can only hold so many passengers. Oh well shit happens!
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yeah, I had to deal with
yeah, I had to deal with that a little this morning. I guess there was an electrical fire at San Leandro. It occurred to me during that mess that it's so noisy on BART I can't hear what the operator is saying to stay abreast of the situation. Also, though I wasn't too affected, it comes to my attention that if it were a bigger issue, then BART REALLY would be a mess.
I don't know about anyone else, but when all the transit systems were supposed to be on alert due to high "chatter" in intelligence networks, I noticed security presence was actually less! Wha....?
Happy Riding!
It's not that the employees
It's not that the employees didn't know how to handle the situation it was that Central control kept changing things up and made many of us look incompetent. Remember Central is trying to juggle 40+ trains at one time, find out what was going on at San leandro, and figure out how and what and when it can be fixed plus they have to deal with homeland security the P.U.C. the fire department the press and the rest of the system and it's ripple effect.
Example: The small trains you were complaining about (I had to operate one of them) were supposed to be built on to the trains coming from San Fran. Oh but wait! those trains were stuck on the North side of San Leandro and couldn't come down to Fremont to be built up into long trains. The train yard could only send what they had with the amount of operators they had (very few) remaining in the south end of the fremont line. Sorry, we did our best with what we had to help everyone as fast as we could.
The real cause from what I can guess was that a third rail insulator failed. This is rare but not unheard of as I suspect many of them are the originals from the time the station was built. In this case the insulator failed while a train was next to it and it arc'd so hot that the third rail got soft and bowed a bit while various computer antennae and fiberglass coverboards melted/burned.