{"id":130262,"date":"2020-02-28T16:35:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T07:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=130262&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2020-02-28T16:35:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T07:35:59","slug":"lack-of-bus-drivers-in-fukuoka-forces-schedule-reduction","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/lack-of-bus-drivers-in-fukuoka-forces-schedule-reduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of Bus Drivers in Fukuoka Forces Schedule Reduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nishitetsu announced on February 26 that they will reduce the number of buses running in the cities of Fukuoka, Kitakyushu and Kurume. A new bus schedule will take effect in March, in which fewer buses will operate for forty-five routes including an expressway bus &#8216;Nakama&#8217; (Fukuoka ~ Kitakyushu.) The company has been facing a serious shortage of drivers and 110 additional drivers are required to continue current operation. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nishitetsu.co.jp\/release\/2019\/19_157.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Nishitetsu<\/a> 02\/26\/2020<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/nishitetsu-busses.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-130263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/nishitetsu-busses.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/nishitetsu-busses.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/nishitetsu-busses.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/nishitetsu-busses.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Photo: Fukuoka Now<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Disclaimer<\/strong>: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area related news for the benefit of those who cannot read Japanese. Contents posted here are mostly summaries of publicly posted news stories from Japanese media organizations. Errors might occur during translation. Those errors are ours, and not the news source\u2019s. Photos and images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Please use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\">this form<\/a> to send feedback and questions.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nishitetsu announced on February 26 that they will reduce the number of buses running in the cities of Fukuoka, Kitakyushu and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29355,"featured_media":130263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-130262","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-city","news-category-others","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/130262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}