Railway companies “planned suspension” will be announced by the day before the closest typhoon October 9th 14:35
As the large and violent Typhoon No. 19 is approaching this weekend, railway companies in the Tokyo metropolitan area have begun to consider “planned suspension” to cancel train operations in advance. If implemented, many companies would like to announce it by the day before the typhoon is closest.
Regarding “planned suspension”, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism is requesting railway companies to provide prospects and implementation time to users as soon as possible.
When we interviewed railway companies in the Tokyo metropolitan area about “planned suspension” in Typhoon No. 19, many companies such as JR East, Odakyu Electric Railway, Tobu Railway have already begun to consider and implement “planned suspension” Wants to announce it by the day before the typhoon is closest, and announces it on the homepage and SNS.
Among them, in JR East, a trouble that made it difficult to connect to the homepage occurred at the time of the last typhoon No. 15, so it was decided to switch to a simple homepage that displays only operation information when concentration of access is expected. That is.
Railway companies said, “Please refrain from unnecessary urgent trips and check the latest operation information on the website and Twitter.”