TRAIN DETECTION PROBLEM STILL PLAGUES BART

Engineers at the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) District are exploring new solutions to the train detection problem delaying the service through the transbay tube to San Francisco, now scheduled for May 1974 (ENR 8/30 p. 14). The California Public Utilities Commission (PUC), which will not allow BART to route trains to and from Oakland through the tube until the problem is solved, has concluded that the wheel scrubbers installed last spring are not a cure.

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  McGraw-Hill, Incorporated

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• Publication Date: 1973-10-11

Media Info

• Pagination: 1 p.
• Serial:
  • Engineering News-Record
  • Volume: 191
  • Issue Number: 5
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0891-9526

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Safety; Scrubbers; Signaling
• Identifier Terms: San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00050419
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 31 1981 12:00AM