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San Francisco It may be in Silicon Valley, but parts of its rail system are still operating using technology that hasn’t been cutting edge since the Reagan administration.
San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority (SFMTA) Officials told KGO-TV In a recent interview, he said 5.25-inch floppy disks are still used to operate the city’s train control system.
San Francisco Metro Light Rail and 5.25-inch floppy disks. (Getty/Getty Images)
SFMTA, which operates San Francisco’s Muni Metro light rail system, has used floppy disks to operate its trains since 1998.
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“We were the first agency in the U.S. to adopt this particular technology, but this was back in the day when computers didn’t have hard drives, so we had to load the software onto the computer from a floppy disk,” Mariana Maguire said. speaks. SFMTA Train Control Project told KGO.
San Francisco MUNI Metro train parked at the Curtis E. Green Light Rail Center on March 30, 2020 in San Francisco, California (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/Getty Images)
The report said the system was built to last up to 25 years, but now, a year later, authorities are concerned it could fail.
SFMTA Director Jeffrey Tumlin said in an interview, “Although the system is currently working well, the risk of data degradation on the floppy disks increasing over the years, leading to catastrophic failure at some point.” I know that,” he said.
San Francisco Transportation Authority Commissioner Jeffrey Tumlin on Tuesday, November 12, 2019 in San Francisco, California. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images/Getty Images)
However, he explained that upgrading the system would take 10 years and cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
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“We are hopeful that a large part of this will come to fruition. from the state “The rest will come from Muni’s rapidly dwindling internal capital resources,” Tamlin told KGO.
