permit, but the operator shortage is not unique to munimobile. it is something across the bay area and across the country where we are facing, but ours is worse because we were slow to react to it. >> and what impact are these reactions, the steps that you have put in place, what impact are you seeing on the backfilling of those roles, and what are you doing in the meantime to ensure reliability? >> what we started to see is a stabilization, so we were going, you know, fewer and fewer trips that were being delivered. we have now been able to stabilize and we are starting to see it eating away at our shortage. we have increased the cost sizes we were doing classes of about 25 to 30. we have a low class last december where we only got 14 people. our most recent free or four classes have started anywhere from 55 to 60 students. we're graduating between 40 and 45. we more than doubled the amount of people we are putting through the pipeline. we're doing our best to spread out the pain and make sure the routes that need the service the most would be h