Bus route suspensions reach even Tokyo, with outer wards like Adachi losing lines- “There’s a chronic shortage of drivers. No one wants to do the job…We often experience customer harassment if we’re just a little late, and you can earn more working in the private sector”.
https://president.jp/articles/-/113109
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Have they tried…
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Paying people more?
Employ fewer people to stand around all day with glow sticks and pay more to bus drivers who actually do shit
This will be just getting worse. If there only were a multitude of solutions to the problem 🤔
Look like more foreigner restrictions are needed
“If we stop more foreigners from coming, we’ll need less buses!” /s
Deploy the giant anti-bear wolf robots to ensure grumpy passengers behave.
A double the driver’s salary.
The buses suck ass in Tokyo anyway. I hate taking the bus.
Abusive passengers being banned from the service would go a long way.
Just paying them more sounds like a simple solution like pay more train drivers, need to pay more combini staff, need pay more waiters, need pay more [insert job]. Runaway costs for everything and everyone.
Adachi trains and buses are full loaded all the time. They can afford to pay more and simple refuse. They want to treat you like cattle and use less buses because it makes them more money.
Some japanese customers are indeed quite obnoxious when a “service” is not working.
Anyway, the population is decreasing… so less bus driver will be needed in the near future..
People in Tokyo never have any need to get a driving license, and those who want as a hobby, need to be rich as driving schools are insanely expensive.
Hmmm maybe they should bring some foreig…oh, never mind. 🤣