Remember the Clipper Card outage on July 1? Here’s how much it cost BART

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A one-day Clipper Card outage earlier this month cost BART hundreds of thousands of dollars, KRON4 has learned. According to Bay Area Rapid Transit officials, the July 1 outage cost BART $382,000 in lost revenue.

The system for Clipper Cards, which are used for payment on nearly all transit systems in the San Francisco Bay Area, experienced a widespread outage on the same day many transit systems were raising their rates.

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The issue was resolved by around 1 p.m. on the same day, but not before it cost BART nearly $400,000 in lost revenue. According to BART officials, there were 103,379 paid exits on the day Clipper went down.

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BART officials tell KRON4 they plan on seeking reimbursement for the loss.

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