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The tunnel has many operational and safety facilities. Among them are emergency telephones and cameras at 100-meter (330 ft) intervals. Fire-safety equipment includes infrared sensors, fire extinguishers, foam sprayers, and pushbutton alarms. Emergency exits leading to a separate emergency path are located no more than 350 meters (1,150 ft) apart.
Shuto Expressway system in 2015 shown in red, other interconnected expressways in green. The Shuto Expressway (首都高速道路, Shuto Kōsoku-dōro, "Metropolitan Expressway", lit.
In 2009, Tokyo private industries proposed funding a project to dismantle the elevated expressway and put them underground. [ 1 ] In May 2020, the Shuto Expressway Company received approval for plans to relocate 1.8 kilometers of the expressway underground between Kandabashi and Edobashi Junctions, in the area surrounding Nihonbashi Bridge as ...
The first section of the Yokohane Route was opened to traffic on 19 July 1968 between the interchanges at Asada and Higashikanagawa. Later that year, on 28 November, the expressway was extended north to its current northern terminus at Haneda. Next it was extended south to Kinkō Junction on 7 August 1972.
The Yaesu Route was completed in two phases. The first section of the expressway to be completed was the short section of expressway that links the southern end of the Tokyo Expressway to the Inner Circular Route in 1964. [1] The main part of the expressway between Kandabashi and Nishi-Ginza was completed in 1973. [2]
The Bayshore Route (湾岸線, Wangan-sen) signed as Route B, is one of the routes of the tolled Shuto Expressway system in the Greater Tokyo Area.The Bayshore Route is a 62.1-kilometer (38.6 mi) stretch of toll highway that runs from the Kanazawa ward of Yokohama in the west, northeast to the city of Ichikawa in Chiba Prefecture in the east.
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.
The estimated cost for the entire project as laid out in 1959 was 105.8 billion yen (US$293,888,888) (equivalent to $2.35 billion in 2023 dollars). [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Construction of the expressway route was initiated in 1962 in Shibuya 4 chome near Aoyama Gakuin University. [ 9 ]