OAKLAND, Calif. —

Friday morning commuters who rely heavily on the Bay Area's heavily used public transit network likely had their travel disrupted after a systemwide outage.

The Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) posted on the social media platform X at 5:30 a.m. that there is no BART service due to a computer equipment failure. BART later posted that the issue came after a network upgrade that prevented the start of service.

Affiliate KTVU-TV reports that this is the fourth major outage for BART since May, when an outage lasted for about five hours.

For those who don't have a vehicle or cannot foot the cost of an expensive rideshare, BART is vital for commuters.

There is no estimated time of restoration.

If this outage is similar to the past three instances, even when service is restor

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