Shuto Expressway: Long-term road closure due to heavy snow; measures to be taken including increased number of workers. The Metropolitan Expressway Company said it did not have enough workers to remove the snow.
The road was closed from 11:30 a.m. on the 5th, before the snow began to accumulate in earnest, but it was only lifted 53 hours later at 4:30 p.m., on the 7th. The head office received too much information due to the expansion of road closures, making it impossible to manage the progress.