About investigation about member of gate type pillar of road information board

NEXCO EAST Kanto Regional Head Office (Taito-ku, Tokyo, Regional Head Office length: Shinichi Ishikawa) has promoted the construction in Ibaraki Prefecture Higashi-Kanto Expressway in relation to this and to connect Kita-Kanto Expressway Ibaraki-cho, Higashi Interchange (IC) -We received information that "a member different from the design is used" on a part of the gate-shaped pillar of the road information board installed across the main line between the Ibaraki-cho Nishi IC (to the west) It was. Based on this information sent on October 7, 2009, we immediately started checking the authenticity of the information and checking the safety, etc. However, this is not enough to grasp the situation, so we have removed this gate-shaped support from the Expressway are conducting a detailed survey.

We will inform you as soon as possible about the results of this investigation.