Observing this situation, Keihan Electric Railway tried to avoid a similar complication over its line, and seeing that the electric railway construction had started a boom, it decided to apply for high-speed railway construction like the one that the Hankyu Kobe Line had achieved, in the under-populated area on the north of the Yodo-gawa River for which various companies had already filed applications.
この様子を阪急の免許申請時から見ていた京阪電気鉄道では、自社の路線においてもそのような事態になることを避けるため、おりしも電気鉄道の敷設がブームであり、淀川の北側の人口過疎地域に阪急神戸線と同じような高速運転可能な路線の敷設出願が各社から出されていたのに対して、京阪自身も出願を行った。