When the Metropolitan Expressway was closed for 53 hours due to heavy snowfall in early February, the Metropolitan Expressway Company said it did not have enough workers to remove the snow and did not have a proper grasp of the situation. We have revised our response, including increasing the number of people.
Due to heavy snowfall in early February, the Metropolitan Expressway 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. did.
Regarding the prolonged road closure, the Metropolitan Expressway Company examined its response at the time
and found that 70% of the total length of the road was closed and that there was a shortage of workers to remove the snow
. The authors
summarized the results as follows:
work efficiency decreased as snow removal had to be done
manually; and the head office received too much information due to the expansion of road closures, making it impossible to manage the progress of snow removal operations .
In addition
, the number of work teams involved in snow removal will be increased from the current 174 teams to 184 teams
, new equipment such as small snow removers that can be used on narrow road shoulders
will be deployed, and staff will be assigned to manage the progress of work on each route. I did.
The Metropolitan Expressway Company commented, ``We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused to our customers.We will definitely implement countermeasures and do our best to deal with heavy snowfall in the future.''