[E8] On Hokuriku Expressway Kurosaki PA Out-bound line
Creating flower beds with students from Shibata Prefectural Agricultural High School

~“Peace of Flowers and Greenery Highway Garden Project” for regional cooperation~
Date and time: Tuesday, October 17, 2020, 10:00-12:20

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October 10, 2020
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.
Niigata Regional Head Office Niigata Management Office

What happened in October 2020

Photo 1 of the visit in October 2020
Photo 2 of what happened in October 2020
Photo 3 of the visit in October 2020

NEXCO EAST Niigata Management Office (Niigata City) will be working with students from Shibata Prefectural Agricultural High School to create a flower bed on the E8 Hokuriku Expressway Kurosaki Kurosaki Parking Area (PA) Out-bound on Tuesday, October 17th.
This initiative, now in its 11th year, is part of the ``Flower and Green Peace Highway Garden Project,'' which aims to collaborate with the local community and create a space where customers can use the PA more easily and feel refreshed by maintaining trees and flowers. This will be carried out as follows.
On the day of the event, students from Shibata Prefectural Agricultural High School, approximately 20 related parties, and approximately 20 employees of our company participated, and they worked together to plant approximately 2,500 flowerbeds in seven colors of violas and violets that the students had grown. Masu.

1. 1. Date and time

Tuesday, October 17, 2020 10:00-12:20

  • The event will be held in case of light rain or will be canceled in case of bad weather. Cancellation will be decided at 13:00 on Monday the 16th.

2. place

 E8 Hokuriku Expressway Kurosaki PA Out-bound Line
(Kiba, Nishi-ku, Niigata City, Niigata Prefecture)

3. Content

Students from Shibata Prefectural Agricultural High School will work together to plant about 2,500 flowerbeds in seven colors of violas and violets.

Four. participant

Niigata Prefectural Shibata Agricultural High School, Department of Environmental Science, Department of Flora and Horticulture, approximately 20 students and related parties
Approximately 20 NEXCO EAST Niigata Management Office group employees

What is "Flower and Green Peace Highway Garden Project"?

Rest facility We will create a "highway garden" that aims to create a community-like atmosphere and collaborate with the community, while making it easier to use the garden, etc., to provide a more relaxing and healing space for our customers. It is a project that we are promoting for.
NEXCO EAST Niigata Regional Head Office, along with regional cooperation, Hokuriku Expressway Nadachi Tanihama SA (Out-bound line), Yoneyama SA (In-bound line, Out-bound line), Kurosaki PA (Out-bound line), Kan-Etsu Expressway Echigo Kawaguchi SA (Out-bound line) This project is being implemented at five locations.

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The NEXCO EAST Group has positioned the period from 2021 to 2025 as "a period that contributes to the achievement of the SDGs and transforms into a new future society," and is making various efforts.
The "Flower and Green Peace Highway Garden Project" is a project that plays a part in cooperation with local educational institutions, support for local education, and community development that allows people to continue living, and as an activity that includes the meaning of promoting greening, SDGs. We believe that it will contribute to the goals of 4, 11, 15, and 17.

Image of the SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS logo and the SDGs target Nos. 4, 11, 15, and 17 logos
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