The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which runs the city’s Muni Metro light rail, claims to be the first US agency to adopt the train control system it currently uses, which has ...

Despite its location in the nation's hub of cutting-edge tech, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) relies on an aging piece of tech to keep its trains moving. While the 5 ...

The mantra “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” only works for so long. Eventually, even if a system is still working fine, you’re going to want to upgrade it. That’s the lesson from the San Francisco ...

San Francisco’s Automatic Train Control System (ATCS) still runs on data that is stored on floppy disks. A $212 million overhaul will move the tech five generations ahead, according to officials. If ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. San Francisco transit officials have approved a $212 million overhaul of its aging train control system — which for decades has ...

Earlier this year, we reported that the German ICE railroad network was still using Microsoft's Windows 3.11, which launched in 1993, to help run parts of its services. Now there's word that one of ...

SFMTA's train system is not only relying on humans to run it, but turns out that a floppy disk has been playing a key role for decades. SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- San Francisco Municipal Transportation ...

I mean, hey, if it works. . . . I did find this quote curious: "The system is currently working just fine, but we know that with each increasing year, risk of data degradation on the floppy disks ...

San Francisco transit officials have approved a $212 million overhaul of its aging train control system — which for decades has run on data stored by floppy disks. The Municipal Transportation Agency ...