Text version of Kannai Station Area Road Specific Business Plan

１．　Introduction
２．　Structure of the Traffic Barrier-Free Law
３．　What is the Road Specific Business Plan?
４．　Maintenance Policy
５．　Maintenance plan
（１） Development plan for individual routes
（２） Other Activities
６．　Promotion of Road Specific Business Plan

　In November 2000, the "Law Concerning the Promotion of Smooth Movement Using Public Transport for Elderly and Disabled Persons (commonly known as the Traffic Barrier-Free Law)" was enforced.
　In response to this, Yokohama City has been developing a basic concept in the area around major stations in the city center and Fukutoshin, and in August 2004, as the central city area of Yokohama, functions such as business, commerce, tourism, and public facilities. In addition, we devised "Kannai Station area traffic barrier-free basic design" for the area around Kannai Station, which has accumulated historical assets and promoted the town development priority promotion district business of welfare.
　In order to realize this basic concept, Road and Highway Bureau has formulated a road-specific business plan that defines the business content and business period. In the future, we will implement road projects based on this plan.

　The Traffic Barrier-Free Law is designed to reduce the burden on the body associated with traveling using public transportation such as the elderly and the physically handicapped, and to improve the convenience and safety of the movement. We promote barrier-free by two pillars of "barrier-free of vehicles" and "barrier-free of priority maintenance areas".
　In order to promote barrier-free access to priority areas, one of these pillars, the Kannai-District Subcommittee, which consists of academics, the elderly, disabled and other citizens, related businesses, administrative organizations, etc. The basic concept was formulated after repeated examinations.
　In addition, we carry out business by 2010 based on around Kannai Station district road specific business plan (= business plan of road managed by Yokohama-shi) which we devised along this basic design.

　The following are the priority maintenance areas in the area around Kannai Station and the routes to make barrier-free.
　The priority maintenance area is a district where major facilities such as public facilities and welfare facilities are located within a range of approximately 500m (walking area) centered on passenger facilities such as railway stations where a considerable number of users are located.・ It is an area where barrier-free is implemented integrally.

■Priority areas include Kanagawa Prefectural Office on the Kitakata side from JR Kannai Station, Yokohama Stadium on the east side, Isezaki-Chojamachi subway on the south side, and Ookagawa on the west side.

■There are three routes for barrier-free: specific routes, semi-specific routes, and routes that are consistent with specific routes and implemented.

• As a general rule, specific routes are routes that carry out maintenance along standards based on the Traffic Barrier-Free Law by 2010, or at this stage, maintenance based on the Yokohama City Welfare Town Development Ordinance is being carried out, It is a route that does not particularly hinder the smooth movement of people with disabilities.
• The semi-specific route is a route that captures repair opportunities, etc., for issues, and works on maintenance for barrier-free.
• Routes that are consistent with specific routes and are implemented are routes that complement smooth movement by maintaining them together with specific routes.

　In the priority maintenance districts stipulated in the basic design, "sections of roads" in which road managers carry out road specific projects in accordance with the basic design, "contents and scheduled implementation period" of road specific projects to be implemented for each section And "important matters to be considered" when implementing other road specific projects.

■Target year
　About specific route, route to plan consistency with specific route, specific route, we carry out maintenance by 2010. For other routes, we will take advantage of opportunities for repairs and other measures to make them barrier-free.

■Setting the maintenance level
　In order to realize barrier-free priority and integrally by 2010, we will carry out maintenance by repairs for places where barrier-free can be achieved by partial improvement of sidewalks.
In addition, the maintenance level is determined in consideration of cooperation with other businesses and the continuity of pedestrians.

■Maintenance standards
　We carry out maintenance based on road movement facilitation maintenance guidelines. The main maintenance standards are "the effective width of the sidewalk should be 2m or more", "the pavement material should be flat, non-slip, and well-drained", "the longitudinal slope of the sidewalk should be 5% or less", "The pedestrian crossing gradient should be 1% or less", "the flat part is provided at the connection of the pedestrian crossing", and "the pedestrian crossing is a yellow step connected to the pedestrian crossing".

（１） Development plan for individual routes
　We show maintenance plan about route to carry out road specific business by 2010 to promote barrier-free early in priority, integrally.
　In addition, in order to make the plan more effective, the plan may be reviewed through coordination with other businesses or budgets.

　The following 10 routes are used to implement road-specific projects.

　We show contents to work on as road manager under cooperation such as roadside inhabitants to use route becoming barrier-free by road identification business effectively. Since the cooperation of citizens is indispensable in this initiative, it is important to actively provide information and work with citizens.

○Utilizing city public relations magazines and websites, we provide information on the status of business implementation and barrier-free initiatives.

○Regarding illegal private property and illegal bicycle parking that narrow the effective width, understanding and cooperation of roadside residents and bicycle users is indispensable, and we will continue to provide guidance, removal, and call for promotion of bicycle parking lot use. .

○As abandoned bicycle measures, we devise "measures business guidelines such as Yokohama-shi bicycles" to examine role allotment such as administration, citizen, railway company.

○As a countermeasure against leaving obstacles on the block for guiding visually impaired people, we will work on enlightenment activities such as laying PR sheets on the guide block.

　In order to make road maintenance promoted by the Traffic Barrier-Free Law barrier-free by 2010, in promoting the business, cooperation of related parties such as traffic managers, railway operators, road occupants, roadside residents, etc. Is required. We ask for your cooperation so that everyone can pass with peace of mind.