A meeting of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism was held to consider measures for accidents in which visually impaired people fall from the platform of the station, and measures for fatal accidents that occurred at Tokyo Metro stations were examined last month.
Since the number of accidents in which visually impaired people fall from their homes and die is increasing, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism has set up a meeting with railway companies and groups of visually impaired people since October this year to consider countermeasures.
At the meeting on the 11th, a person in charge of Tokyo Metro newly guarded the ticket gate as a countermeasure after the accident and the situation of the accident where a visually impaired man fell from the platform and died at Toyocho Station in Koto Ward last month. We have assigned staff and reported that we were able to support them even before they reached the home.
In addition, a "walking trainer" who teaches visually impaired people how to walk safely explained to the attending committee members how to walk safely at home.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism says that it will summarize measures for stations without platform doors and stations under construction to install platform doors by March next year.
Mr. Hirokazu Ichihara, Executive Director of the Tokyo Metropolitan Welfare Association for the Blind, said, "I hope that the cause of the accident can be analyzed carefully by talking about what the railway operator and the visually impaired will notice from their respective perspectives." It was.