Affected by the epidemic, the operation is difficult. There are 52 passenger transport operators who have no intention to continue their operations, and they cannot find other operators to take over. They may face suspension in the future.

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[Reporter Zheng Weiqi/Taipei Report] The passenger car industry has been affected by the epidemic and the operation is difficult. The storm may be expanded. This newspaper investigated 53 alternative driving routes. There are 52 alternative driving operators who have no intention of continuing to operate and cannot be found. If other operators take over, they may face the fate of stopping the operation in the future.

Passenger transport business licenses are basically issued every five years. After the expiration, the operator has no intention of operating. The General Administration of Highways will recruit other operators to take over. If the unemployed are willing to take over, in order to avoid the interruption of passenger transport routes and affect the rights and interests of the public, existing operators will be invited. or other passenger transport operators to temporarily operate the route, which is called "driver on behalf of the driver".

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According to the investigation of this newspaper, there are currently 53 routes entrusted to drive on behalf of the driver, including five national highway passenger transport routes and 48 general road passenger transport routes.

Only the 2002 Taipei Chang Gung-Keelung Chang Gung, Rihao Passenger Transport intends to operate, and is currently in preparation.

There are another 52 routes that no operator intends to operate. These routes are mainly distributed in Hsinchu and Miaoli, and then in Taoyuan, Jibei, Nantou, Taichung and other places. In the future, the convenience of people in rural areas may be affected.

According to statistics from the General Administration of Highways, the number of passengers on highways last year was 67.25 million, the least in the past 32 years, a significant decrease of 47% compared with that before the epidemic (2008).

62%, some operators intend to give up after suffering heavy losses.

All passenger transport routes on the Japanese National Highway were suspended on February 1 this year.

Li Jianwen, general manager of Capital Passenger Transport, said that the agent drove 1573 Keelung-Neihu Science and Technology Park for more than two years, with an average annual loss of 46 million yuan.

Chen Wenrui, director of the General Administration of Highways of the Ministry of Communications, said that many of the passenger transport routes in the agent driving are related to the basic needs of the people, and the industry cannot always lose money. A subsidy mechanism for agent driving has been planned; including operating loss subsidies during the agent driving period, and those who are willing to take over Operators of substitute driving routes have launched a subsidy plan for nutrition, and additional subsidies will be given when the number of passengers reaches a certain number.

Li Kecong, convener of the Transportation Committee of the Consumers' Foundation, said that the subsidy should be given in full, so that the industry can see the hope of operating, otherwise it will just wait for changes, and if it can't last, it will collapse and withdraw.