Power has been restored to over 7,000 PG&E customers in Berkeley this evening including the downtown Berkeley BART station, officials said.
According to PG&E, power was restored to the BART station shortly before 7 p.m., and the remaining customers in Berkeley were restored by 7:09 p.m.
The downtown BART station reopened at 7:32 p.m. after being closed for around two hours, BART officials said. Trains were running through the station but not stopping during the closure.
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There are residual delays of around 10 minutes on the Richmond and Fremont lines tonight.
The outage began at 5:29 p.m. and was caused by an underground equipment failure in the 1800 block of University Avenue, said PG&E spokeswoman Jana Morris. It initially impacted some 7,100 customers. Service was restored to 1,000 of those customers within an hour, and service was fully restored two hours later.
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The affected streets also included Dwight Way, Telegraph Avenue and Piedmont Avenue, Morris said.
-- Bay City News Service
