According to NBC Bay Area, BART spokesperson said that the control center was unable to restore the system after its shutdown. However, she noted that this issue “does happen from time to time” because “our system is over 50 years old.”

Service has been restored systemwide https://t.co/xMiQH0rwpV

— BART (@SFBART) May 9, 2025

“The good news is we’re in the process of replacing it, and we have the funding to do so because of Measure RR, and the federal government has made investments into our infrastructure,” Trost said, before adding, “But it’s awful news that the Bay Area can’t rely on BART as of this moment. We don’t have an ETA as to when the trains will go because part of that is identifying the location of the problem.”

At the time of publication, yes — the BART is back up. Within hours of its system-wide outage, the company announced that service was restored. However, “major delays” were still a possibility.

“BART service has resumed system wide. Expect major delays in service toward all destinations due to an earlier train control problem,” BART tweeted.