BART ALERT: Repairs To 'Deformed' Tracks May Take 5 to 6 Hours

Repairs to a San Francisco BART trackway are expected to take five to six hours today and will cause major delays into the evening commute, a BART spokeswoman said.

BART is running only one train line past the Montgomery station in San Francisco until repairs are completed, BART spokeswoman Alicia Trost said. The problem was discovered shortly after 9:30 a.m. on the eastbound trackway between the Civic Center and 16th Street Mission BART stations, BART officials said.

BART crews confirmed there was a deformity on the trackway and repairs are expected to take five to six hours, Trost said at about 10:45 a.m.

Trains are single-tracking through all downtown San Francisco stations and trains traveling from the East Bay to the city are limited, according to BART. Only San Francisco International Airport-bound trains are running past Montgomery station in San Francisco, Trost said.

Trains that normally run from Fremont to Daly City are stopping at the MacArthur station in Oakland, trains from Dublin to Daly City are turning around at Montgomery, and no trains are running directly from Richmond to San Francisco, Trost said.

Passengers on any of those trains will have to get off at those stations and continue on an airport-bound train, according to Trost. San Francisco Municipal Railway and Alameda-Contra Costa Transit are honoring BART tickets today. BART riders are being encouraged to seek alternate methods of transportation.

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--Bay City News

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