San Francisco’s public transportation network experienced a nearly–30 hour outage over an unpaid Internet bill.
Most riders use a Clipper card to enter the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), but on May 18, they abruptly found that the fare–paying platform, operated by Cubic Transportation Systems, was effectively unusable.
That was because riders were unable to add money to their cards at ticket stations due to the 27-hour outage, causing massive frustrations for commuters and huge delays around the Bay Area…