The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism announced that it is expected to proceed with a project to temporarily open a two-lane expressway with four lanes at 14 locations nationwide in the new fiscal year.
There is a section of the expressway nationwide that is tentatively opened with two lanes in a plan to make it with four lanes, and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism has a project to make it four lanes due to traffic volume etc. It is said that priority is given to the section.
On the 5th, candidates for starting a new four-lane project were announced in the new fiscal year.
According to this, the project cost is about 86 km at 14 locations in 13 roads and prefectures nationwide, including the section from the Soma interchange to the Shinchi interchange on the Joban Expressway in Fukushima prefecture, where the slope on the side of the road collapsed due to the earthquake on the 13th of last month. Is worth 470 billion yen.
It means that it was selected based on the damage situation caused by the disaster, traffic congestion, accident occurrence situation, etc.
In the future, the procedures will be carried out by the parties concerned.
At a press conference after the Cabinet meeting, Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Akabane said, "I went to the site of the earthquake last month and realized that if it was a four-lane section, the road closure could be resumed even faster by utilizing the remaining two lanes. I have just strengthened it. I would like to proceed with the necessary procedures in the future. "