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Automated Train Control System central computer failure halts subway communications

S3 · 28 Feb 2019 · SFMTA · San Francisco, CA, USA

Record

CompanySFMTA
IndustryOther
Type(s)outage
Date28 Feb 2019 (day precision)
Time of day~09:00 PT
LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA · Muni Metro subway
Severity (recall, enforcement, or fleet-wide fault)
Scalesystemwide, all subway trains (~40 trains), ~70 minutes
Confidencehigh
Verified flagCited source on file; not independently re-verified

Summary

SFMTA's Automated Train Control System (ATCS) suffered a central computer failure shortly after 9:00 a.m. on February 28, 2019, cutting communication with every train in the Muni Metro subway; non-communicating trains had to run in manual mode at reduced speed, and full communications were not restored until 10:10 a.m.

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SFMTA (agency blog)

Publisher: SFMTA (agency blog) · Retrieved: 2026-09-16

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DateSupporting source rowPublisherLink
28 Feb 2019 Automated Train Control System central computer failure halts subway communications SFMTA (agency blog) SFMTA

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