Due to the declining population and the impact of the corona crisis, the number of users has declined, and there are concerns about the continuation of railways and buses in various places.
In the future, we plan to consider measures with a view to developing new laws.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism said that many local railways and buses are in a critical management situation, and has made proposals compiled by two expert meetings on how regional railways, which continue to be in the red, should be and regional transportation after Corona. And so, from the 7th, the council started discussing concrete measures.
Approximately 30 people attended the conference, including experts and industry groups such as railways and buses.At the beginning, a person in charge of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism told us that 99.6% of general route bus operators nationwide were in the red, and management He explained that there have been cases of bankruptcies, and that 38% of JR6's routes carry less than 2,000 passengers per kilometer per day.
Afterwards, in a closed-door discussion, the experts who attended said that the continuation of public transportation in rural areas is a problem that affects all aspects of daily life, such as medical care and education, and said, ``We should hurry to take measures, even if we have to mobilize all the national budget. It means that there was a succession of opinions such as
In the future, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism will proceed with discussions with a view to developing laws to comprehensively support transportation systems such as railways and buses, and will make an interim report around the end of January next year.