>> i put that to the county supervisor and teacher, john perada. >> does the model work anymore? it hasn't worked for quite sometime. he says the publicly elected board has proven infective. >> there are only three directly elected transportation agencies in the entire country. two of them are here, ac transit and bart. >> and ac transit's also looking at the possible strike. parada would replace bart with the single wide rail agency subject to binding arbitration. >> if we're going to have a strangle hold on the economy that is through bart when the strikes become apparent, we ought to have a process that says no strikes. >> riders we saw should be appointed all is true with all major systems expect denver. we elected board. they don't necessarily know much about budgets and how to run a good budget. >> they should probably picket themselves. i don't know if -- it's not something i would vote on. i would probably skip it if it was on the ballot because i don't know who could run this company. >> he says his well honed political antenna tells him if there is a strike, both sides