Pedestrian paradise in the shopping district The reason why it can not be canceled New Corona April 24 17:28
While the outbreak of new coronavirus is strongly called for refraining from going out, there are some places that pedestrian paradise is canceled as a measure to reduce the traffic, but in Tokyo Shinjuku Ward, it is canceled in a shopping district where people are actually gathering. I found that I had to give up the cancellation because it might cause more people to be crowded.
According to Shinjuku City, many stores such as restaurants and grocery stores are lined up, and the Kagurazaka shopping district in the city is often crowded on weekends even after the state of emergency is announced in 7 prefectures such as Tokyo. It is continuing.
In order to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus infection, Shinjuku City, in consultation with police and shopping streets, also considered canceling the pedestrian paradise on Sundays and public holidays, but canceled due to the fact that people are actually gathering On the contrary, it is judged that there may be more people crowded on the sidewalk, so we gave up the cancellation.
Shinjuku City will circulate its staff on Sundays and public holidays from the 26th to the long holidays, and call for avoiding unnecessary self-restraint and three tightnesses: closed, dense, and close.
Masatoshi Morishige, Deputy Counselor of the Department of Crisis Management in Shinjuku Ward, said, “We are in a situation where we can't solve the problem that there will be a lot of pedestrian traffic if we stop pedestrian paradise. We want to strengthen information dissemination to prevent the spread of infection in order to prevent people from going out. "