Costly strike. Oh really?

Interesting (and a little troubling) statistic cited by the O.C. Register about how much extra this new contract with bus drivers will cost the Orange County Transportation Authority:

The tentative agreement, announced at a 9 a.m. OCTA press conference, will cost the transit agency $200,000 more over the next three years.

For those riders left stranded this week because of the strike, that might seem like not all that much money for the headaches this strike caused. More on those numbers later. And The Times' strike team will have a story posted on latimes.com soon.