UPDATE: BART reports limited service is restored as follows: Red, Yellow and Orange lines fully restored; Blue line is Dublin to Bay Fair and Daly City to MacArthur; and Green line trains canceled until repairs are completed (take the orange line).
Earlier, officials reported BART was temporarily suspending transbay service due to the emergency track repairs.
Officials are recommending riders seek alternate transportation if they need to travel across the San Francisco Bay.Sign up for NBC Bay Area’s Housing Deconstructed newsletter. Officials said AC transit is providing bus service to San Francisco on bus NL from 19th Street and Broadway in Oakland. Crews were working to repair a damaged section of the third rail of the track in an underground section in downtown Oakland.
BART has not released information on when the track repairs would be completed or when normal service would resume.
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