This week on the Lock and Code podcast, we speak with Rachel Swan about the simple network problems causing major train outages in the Bay.

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BART, the Bay Area's major rapid transit system, has suffered three separate network-related outages (May 2025, September 2025, and February 2026), each halting service for 175,000 daily riders. A podcast episode featuring San Francisco Chronicle reporter Rachel Swan explores how aging networking equipment—where a single failing component causes complete loss of train visibility—underlies these repeated failures, and why public transit infrastructure struggles to modernize its technology.

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