Local News

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport released information on the projects it plans to cut or reduce from the supplemental budget for 2009. Several of these will have an impact on Kyushu. The plan to widen to four lanes the Nagasaki Expressway from Nagasaki to Tarami has been frozen. The funds for surveying obstacles at the Fukuoka, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Oita, and Kagoshima airports will not be spent. The money allocated for preparing land next to the Kitakyushu Airport with the intent of extending the runway has been cut from 10 billion yen to 4.9 billion yen. Funds have been frozen for the earthquake proofing of buildings at the Civil Aviation College in Miyazaki City. Meanwhile, no funds were frozen for the Kyushu Shinkansen project.