As a feature of Obon season, The Out-bound line is predicted to have particularly heavy traffic between August 12th (Saturday) and the In-bound line between August 14th (Monday) to 15th (Tuesday). Heavy traffic over 30km is predicted at Tohoku Expressway and Kan-Etsu Expressway.

In addition, Tohoku Expressway Out-bound and near the Yamato interchange, Joban Expressway In-bound-Out-bound, such as near the Hitachi Central interchange, even in places where congestion does not occur usually, there is a place to 10km or more of the traffic jam is predicted to occur. Locations where it is predicted that the required transit time will increase by 30 minutes or more than usual due to traffic congestion Attachment [PDF: 30KB] It is as follows.

At locations where heavy traffic is expected to occur, temporary information boards are installed and guides are placed at interchanges to reduce congestion.

[Number of predicted congestion occurrences of 10 km or more (Wednesday, August 9, 2006 to Tuesday, August 22, 2006)]

≪Prediction of traffic congestion over 30km≫

Expressway The traffic congestion forecast information provided by the information site "DoraNavi" and the traffic congestion forecast guide is used by many customers, and during the Golden Week this year, there was a traffic congestion relief effect.
(For the utilization status of traffic congestion prediction information, Here Please see. )

We will continue to promote traffic congestion countermeasures and provide detailed traffic congestion forecast information promptly. Please continue to use it for your travel planning.

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