BART officials announced late Monday night that five-car trains -- half the normal length -- would begin running Tuesday. The smaller but more frequent trains will run on both the red line and the orange line – between the Richmond and Berryessa stations.
Although the broken cable has not yet been repaired, so the transit agency is rerouting power from elsewhere in the system substations until they can finish repairing the broken cable .
BART is advising passengers to wait in the middle of the station platforms on the red and orange lines because the trains will not extend the normal length of the platform.
Officials provided no estimate of when the repairs would be completed.
Two weeks ago, BART lost power along portions of the Richmond line because of a break in the original power cables – that were scheduled to begin replacement the same week the damage occurred. Work crews successfully tested running shorter trains using current power levels.
