NEXCO EAST Hokkaido Regional Head Office (Sapporo Atsubetsu District Oyachi, Regional Head Office length: Kubotera Katsuji) In, in the Hokkaido in the year-end and New Year period Expressway for the traffic situation was summarized as follows.

Number of units used during one period

The number of units used About 109,000 units And compared to last year 4.3% increase Did.

This is "(1) increase from the previous year due to a decrease due to a long-term suspension of snow between Otaru and Chitose including the uniform fare section (Sapporo West-Sapporo South) on December 28 last year," (2) It is thought to be due to a decrease from the previous year due to an increase due to the implementation of the social experiment (*) on the Do-O Expressway (Fukagawa to Shibetsu Kenbuchi) last year.

Excluding the effects of traffic closures and social experiments, the number of passengers used will be about the same as last year.

(*) Social experiment: If you get on and off in the section of "Fukagawa-Shibetsu Kenbuchi", the toll will be 50% off, and the period is from December 20, 2005 to January 20, 2006. Expressway by discounting the toll of a limited time, Expressway to promote the use of, those that influence to verify that give to road traffic congestion relief and Dohoku area of the open road, Do-O Expressway (Dohoku speaking) social experiment It was conducted by the council.

[Number used per day]

2 congestion

There was no traffic congestion of more than 1km due to traffic congestion.

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