Prediction of traffic congestion during the year-end and New Year holidays and requests for safe driving (in Niigata Prefecture)

~ We predict that there will be no traffic congestion of 5km or more due to traffic concentration ~

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November 27, 2018
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.
Niigata Regional Head Office

NEXCO EAST Niigata Regional Head Office (Chuo-ku, Niigata City) is the year-end and New Year period [2018 December 28 (Friday) -2019, January 6 (Sunday) 10 days] On the Expressway within the Niigata Regional Head Office, Predicting that congestion of 5 km or more will not occur due to traffic concentration doing.

In the winter, road traffic conditions will change significantly due to sudden weather changes, accidents, and broken vehicles. Attachment 1 [PDF: 354KB] Please check and make sure you have enough time to go out.

Request for safe driving

[1] Expressway in Niigata Prefecture in winter tend to have more accidents than other months.

Image of the average monthly total number of accidents on Expressway in Niigata in 2017

[2] In preparation for a full-scale winter, please prepare early for winter, such as changing to winter tires.

Image image of winter tire installation rate (as of November 20)

For details on requesting customers to drive safely Attachment 2 [PDF: 115KB] please look at. In addition, we would like you to pay particular attention to Attachment 3 [PDF: 343KB] Please use it as it is described in the safety check point of.

Please see the following pages for the year-end and New Year traffic congestion forecasts for Expressway outside Niigata Prefecture.

NEXCO EAST Corporate Website Press room "
 DraTra Traffic jam forecast calendar

The detailed conditions for applying holiday discounts during the year-end and New Year period are December 29th (Sat), 30th (Sun), January 1st (Tue / Holiday), 2nd (Wed), 3rd (Thurs). ), 5th (Sat), 6th (Sun). For detailed discount application conditions, please see "DraPla".

 DraPla Holiday Discount

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