When not a lot of people use a bus line, commercial bus companies don't want to run those lines of course because they won't make money of them. 🚌💸
But that would mean that people that don't have easy access to other means of transportation like school children or elderly people won't be able to get around very well anymore...
So in those cases, usually the local government has to step in, by taking over the bus line itself for example (outsourcing the actual operation to a commercial company), or providing subsidies to a bus operator that agrees to keep operating the line, or decreeing that in order to be allowed to operate other, profitable bus lines in the city, the bus company also has to keep the non-profitable lines intact. In some cases, local residents even set up non-profit organizations to operate these bus lines themselves...
This shows that although there's not really a clear, overall definition of the term "community bus" , that it's normally a bus operation that is vital for the local community to get around easily, and that many people find it very important to keep them operating! 👦👨👵🚏🚍
Download + build your own free papercraft Joton community bus (by Takasago City):
(download instructions: click the PDF links on Takasago's city website)
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