BART Service To Walnut Creek Resumes

WALNUT CREEK, CA — A suicidal person who threatened to jump from the platform at the Walnut Creek BART station has come down safely on a firefighter's ladder, according to BART spokesman Taylor Huckaby. Finally, trains are stopping at the station and service is returning to normal. The whole drama took about four hours from start to finish.

No trains passed through the station for the first three hours, with passengers disembarking at Lafayette or Pleasant Hill and riding a bus bridge. For the final hour, trains ran through the station without stopping. That was great for all passengers except Walnet Creek residents, who continued to ride the bus bridge.

At its peak, delays were "at least 30 minutes or longer" according to Huckaby, with issues cascading through the system.

As trains were still disembarking all passengers at Lafayette, before they began passing through Walnut Creek, Huckaby said that about 1500 riders arrived aboard each train. The line for buses was monumental.

BART apologized for the delays in a Tweet.

Image via Shutterstock; Bay City News contributed to this story