BART has sued GE Transportation Systems to recover the $ 80 million it spent on an automated train control system that will not work. The system was supposed to revolutionize the way trains are controlled and move trains closer and faster using wireless technology.
The goal of the project was to run 30 trains through the Transbay Tube in San Francisco each hour instead of the current 24, meaning an additional 6,000 riders per hour could be squeezed through the underwater tunnel. BART had hailed the technology as a way to increase capacity through electronics, rather than physically building new tracks or a new tunnel.
However serious problems that emerged with the project resulted in BART spending $80 million on contracts, equipment and software which may be unusable.
The lawsuit seeks to recover the $80 million BART has spent so far, as well as the software codes it says GE has developed for the system.
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