Buried deep in the contingency plan to slash costs at BART is an all-out nuclear scenario called “Phase 3”: Shut the rail system down altogether.
This complete unraveling would only happen if voters decline to bail out the transit agency in November. But the collapse would be swift. Within two years, BART’s stations would be empty, its track sitting idle.
“We’re not sure we can safely run service that has so many cuts to maintenance and police,” BART spokesperson Alicia Trost said on Friday…