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The Yamate Tunnel is a deep tunnel constructed beneath Yamate Street, the first section over 11 km (6.8 mi) in length, was opened to traffic on 22 December 2007. From 2010, the tunnel extended the Central Circular Route south from near Ikebukuro to Ohashi Junction connecting with Route 3 .
The Metropolitan Expressway was first built between Kyobashi Exit in Chūō, Tokyo and Shibaura Exit in Minato, Tokyo in 1962 for the purpose of increasing traffic flow efficiency in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, thus optimizing and improving the functionality of the traffic system.
Plans for an expressway on the route were first drawn up around 1970, initially in the form of an elevated expressway over the Meguro River between Shibuya and Oimachi. The elevated expressway plan was shelved shortly after, following concerns about environmental issues and local resident protests, but re-emerged in the 1990s in the form of a tunnel plan.
Rainbow Bridge Near Shibaura Rest Area Shibaura JCT Safety barrier against golf balls. The Daiba Route (台場線, Daiba-sen), signed as Route 11, is one of the tolled routes of the Shuto Expressway system serving the Greater Tokyo Area.
The Fukagawa Route (深川線, Fukagawa-sen), signed as Route 9, is one of the tolled routes of the Shuto Expressway system serving the Greater Tokyo Area.The route is a 5.3-kilometer (3.3 mi) long radial highway running south from the Tokyo ward of Chūō to the ward of Kōtō.
Safety standards (irrespective of traffic control) are mandated by OSHA as well as state-level occupational safety departments. A construction traffic control company operates in the same basic way as any other construction company. Companies submit a bid for a job, the lowest bid is accepted (except in the case of disadvantaged companies), and ...
“I was stuck in traffic for ages recently and a car full of builders next to me started holding up the signs like in the movie,” Knightley, 39, joked on The Graham Norton Show.
The development of Direct Traffic Control via radio or telephone between dispatchers and train crews made telegraph orders largely obsolete by the 1970s. Where traffic density warranted it, multiple tracks could be provided, each with a timetable-defined flow of traffic which would eliminate the need for frequent single track-style "meets."