BART isn't immune to horror. A few years back, I almost planned to take BART from the airport to a hotel on California Street. I'm lucky I chose to rent a car

BART isn't immune to horror. A few years back, I almost planned to take BART from the airport to a hotel on California Street. I'm lucky I chose to rent a car and stay in a car-friendly hotel in South San Francisco instead, because BART stopped entirely due to a strike. That was 4.5 days, costing the region about $73 million per day. It bewilders me that such a mess is tolerated. That properly calls for emergency replacements (possibly National Guard) and for the strikers to be convicted of criminal mischief endangering public safety.