A Clipper glitch made it difficult for BART riders to add money to their fare cards at station ticket machines Monday morning, forcing some riders to look for other ways to pay or get through the gates.
Bay Area Clipper said customers were experiencing problems adding value to Clipper cards at BART ticket machines and directed riders to use the Clipper app, online accounts, Apple or Google wallets, retailers or contactless bank cards while the issue was being fixed.
At the Montgomery Street Station in downtown San Francisco, a BART station agent was letting riders through an emergency gate Monday morning. The agent described the problem as a systemwide outage…