The recent BART systemwide outage has raised concerns about the reliability of the network, despite prior assurances of improvements made after a 2019 failure. Bevan Dufty, a director from prior years, had assured riders that such issues would not recur due to hardware and infrastructure upgrades. However, the current outage stemmed from communication failures within the redundant system in place. BART officials, including Alicia Trost, have acknowledged the need for further investigation into the redundancy measures implemented, signaling ongoing discussions about the adequacy and speed of improvements in the transportation network.
"We can be confident and say to our riders that this will not happen again because of the upgrades that we've made."
"Some network devices that were not properly communicating with one another .. this problem area was part of our redundant system."
"Clearly, we'll need to do a deeper dive into what exactly was happening and so why wasn't there even more redundancy in place."
"What came to mind for me this morning is BART isn't getting it done fast enough."
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