You would never get hired by a mass transit authority. They constantly tweak schedules, with the tweaks almost always making the schedules worse.
Is Poor Charley still on the MTA? He’s had a long ride, but he only owes another nickel.
In a government bureaucracy, your status and compensation is determined by the number of people you manage and the size of the budget you oversee. That tells you all you need to know about why government managers would not be interested in anything that would allow them to operate with fewer people and a reduced budget.