REALLY wish students now have at least ONCE per school level, ie elementary, middle, high, some finance course to make them literate and budget conscious.

By doing that, all that would happen is a lay off rebalancing to match the new cost of the raise of workers. Instead, routes and buses and manufactured self made chaos.

Example: New salary from $1k raise =$11k, and 2,000 employees. 2,000*1K=2,000,000/11K=182 employees to lay off to make it equal if income is scarce and needs to be kept low and able to pay debts.

For example, if wages=10K, then a raise 10% =11K, and there's 2,000 employees, take said raise, multiply it by employees, then divide by new rate. Those are the ones to lay off.

They should have calculated the number to lay off in relation to raise.

In order to keep the income measured to actually mitigate this catastrophe they brought on themselves and those who did it flew to better jobs in a hurry,

What should have happened is planning around near guaranteed income. So, some from the state legislature, rest from fares of people, if they pay and not fare jump.

Since it blew up in their faces, this is the logical result. This is what happens when fantasy meets reality. Reality crushes fantasy every time.

So, they pretty much thought that temporary income, as in one time income from the government, was something to plan around. So, opening up new lines, hiring more people, etc.

So, education's sake, a transit agency is really hitting and laying on the fear button about transit being cut by half and fares raised by 25%. Reading about it, I'm not surprised.