>>1191659But then the drop in ridership seems to be even more drastic than population drop.
As for speed, aren't trains in Hokkaido running at 100+kph already?
And then there are those line segments upgraded by Hokkaido High Speed Rail Development Holding although they are suffering from losses too
Indeed even with a faster speed, with that amount of population probably not much more traffic can be drawn in when intra-Hokkaido air routes are usually just flown by props and total capacity of buses across different cities in Hokkaido aren't exactly a lot either
