Izumi-Chuo Station and Tateba Station Area Barrier-Free Basic Concept (text version)

In Yokohama City, following the enforcement of the "Law Concerning the Promotion of Smooth Movement of Elderly and Disabled Persons (Barrier-Free Law)" in December 2006, various barrier-free measures such as the development of basic plans are promoted. I am.
12 areas (Kannai Station, Tsurumi Station, Yokohama Station, Shin-Yokohama Station, Mitsukyo Station, Totsuka Station, Kami-Ooka Station, Konan Chuo Station, Tsuzuki Ward   Town Center, Hoshikawa Station, Hongodai Station, Oguchi Station, Koyasu Station, and Futamatagawa Station.
Izumi Ward has formulated the Basic Concept for Barrier-Free in areas around Izumi-Chuo Station and Tateba Station, where public facilities, cultural facilities, welfare facilities, commercial facilities, and other facilities used by an unspecified number of people are concentrated.

Within a radius of 500m from the station considered to be within walking distance from Izumi-Chuo Station and Tateba Station, there are public facilities such as the Izumi Ward General Government Building, the Izumichuo Community Care Plaza, and the Standing District Center, as well as several other commercial facilities and financial institutions.
The area including these major facilities was set as priority maintenance areas, and a basic barrier-free concept was formulated.

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About barrier-free law and barrier-free basic concept

１．What is the Barrier-Free Law?
In order to improve the convenience and safety of mobility and facility use for the elderly, disabled, pregnant women, injured persons, etc., we will promote barrier-free by the following two major pillars.
（１） Promotion of barrier-free public transportation, buildings, public facilities, etc.
When constructing or introducing public transportation (passenger facilities such as stations and bus terminals, vehicles such as railway vehicles and buses), as well as specific buildings, roads, off-street parking lots and city parks, each company / building We obligate facility installation managers such as owners to comply with the "barrier-free maintenance standards (moving facilitation standards)" established for each facility. In addition, efforts are imposed on these existing facilities to comply with the standards.
（２） Promotion of barrier-free facilities in priority areas
Municipalities are located in areas centered on passenger facilities such as railway stations, where facilities used by the elderly and disabled gather, and in areas where movement between facilities is usually performed on foot (priority maintenance areas), In order to promote barrier-free transportation such as public transportation, buildings, roads, off-street parking lots, city parks, traffic lights, etc., we can create a "barrier-free basic concept" in an integrated manner.

２．What is the Basic Concept of Barrier-Free?
In priority maintenance districts, to promote barrier-free public transportation such as railway stations, public facilities such as roads and parks, and public buildings used by the elderly, disabled, etc. It defines the range of priority maintenance districts, routes (life-related routes) to make barrier-free, and the contents of projects (specific projects, etc.) to be implemented for barrier-free.
In addition, after basic design development, each company makes concrete business plan based on basic design and will carry out barrier-free in important point maintenance district. In Yokohama-shi, we carry out business in principle five years after basic design development.

In the basic barrier-free concept, facilities such as passenger facilities, government facilities, and welfare facilities used by the elderly and disabled in daily life or social life are set as living-related facilities. Facilities that mainly meet the conditions that the facility is used by an unspecified number of people, including the elderly and the disabled, and that the means leading to the facility are mainly on foot from Futamatagawa Station. We set as related facilities.

In addition, we have set a route to make barrier-free on the route connecting lifestyle-related facilities as a lifestyle-related route. In Yokohama City, life-related routes are classified into two types, A and B.

Life-related routes (A) are routes that carry out maintenance in accordance with the standards for facilitating movements based on the law and the maintenance standards of the Yokohama City Welfare Town Development Ordinance, or routes that have already been maintained along both standards. It is.

Life-related routes (B) cannot be set to life-related routes A due to local restrictions such as topography and urbanization. It is a route that carries out maintenance in accordance with smoothing standards. Life-related route B has been set as a unique initiative of Yokohama City.

The contents of the business of life-related facilities and life-related routes in this basic concept are as follows.

Business description of life-related facilities

[Specific Public Transport Business]
Izumi-Chuo Station

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Improvement of block for guiding visually impaired persons (JIS standard) (laying format)
  • Installation of on-site guide maps
  • Installation of information boards with English notation
  • Improving the font size of the fare table
  • Improvement to counter for kicking
  • Improving the size of the information board or the installation position
  • Widening of manned ticket gates
  • Installation of information boards near ticket gates or entrances
  • Installation of hooks for multifunctional toilets
  • Improvement of toilet hooks
  • Improvement of steps at toilet entrances
  • Installation of toilet seats in toilets
  • Improvement of toilet sign
  • Installation of an inward line attached block
  • Alert to users against pillars
• Projects that will take advantage of opportunities to consider maintenance
  • Attachment of Braille or installation of sound guidance to inform the location and content of major equipment

Izumichuo Station Square

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Securing a stop space for persons with disabilities
  • Ensuring and improving flatness
  • Improvement of steps at the boundary between the taxi stand and the roadway
  • Installation of guide signs (periphery guide maps, etc.)
  • Improvement of block for guiding visually impaired persons (JIS standard) (continuous guidance to Izumi Ward General Government Building)
  • Installation of blocks for guiding visually impaired persons (guiding to buses and taxi stands)
  • Relocation of lighting pillars

Tateba Station

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Improvement of visually easy identification of step nose of stairs
  • Improvement of block for guiding visually impaired persons (laying format)
  • Improvement of guidance to ticket vending machines for the visually impaired (when ticket vending machines cannot be used)
  • Improvement of information signs at home
• Projects that will take advantage of opportunities to consider maintenance
  • Attachment of Braille or installation of sound guidance to inform the location and content of major equipment
  • Improvement of facilities so that "vacancy" and "in use" of toilets can be determined to be prepared
  • Reduce the weight of private room doors for multifunctional toilets
  • Installation of voice guidance or Braille information boards on the inside of toilets

Standing station square

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Improvement of pavement

[Road Specific Business]
Route 1: Izumi Public Association Domae
It is the route from the intersection in front of the Izumi Ward General Government Building to Izumi public hall.

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Improvement of flatness of sidewalk surface
  • Improvement of the grinding gradient (longitudinal) in the vehicle entry section
  • Improvement of block for guiding visually impaired persons (securing luminance ratio and brightness difference)

Route 2: In front of Izumichuo Station
It is a route from Izumi-Chuo Station entrance intersection to Izumi-Chuo Station.

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Improvement of flatness of sidewalk surface
  • Securing flat parts in the vehicle entrance

Route 3: Chogo Kaido
It is a route from Izumi-Chuo Station entrance intersection to Izumichuo Community Care Plaza.

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Installation of blocks for guiding visually impaired persons (sidewalk entanglement)

Route 4: Chogo Kaido
It is a route from Izumi-Chuo Station entrance intersection to Izumi-housing complex entrance intersection.

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Installation of blocks for guiding visually impaired persons (sidewalk entanglement)
  • Clarification of bus waiting areas
  • Improvement of lids in drains
  • Improvement of flatness of sidewalk surface
• Projects that will take advantage of opportunities to consider maintenance
  • Improvement of pedestrian crossing gradients
  • Securing flat areas of sidewalks connected to pedestrian crossings
  • Improvement of the height of sidewalks at bus stops

Route 5: Chogo Kaido
The route from Izumi housing complex Entrance Intersection to Tando Entrance Intersection.

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Improvement of flatness of sidewalk surface
  • Securing flat parts in the vehicle entrance
  • Securing flat areas of sidewalks connected to pedestrian crossings
  • Installation of blocks for guiding visually impaired persons (sidewalk entanglement)
  • Improvement of lids in drains
  • Removal of car stoppers

Route 6: Chogo Kaido
It is the route from the Tando entrance intersection to the position intersection.

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Improvement of flatness of sidewalk surface
  • Improvement of block for guiding visually impaired persons (before pedestrian crossing)
  • Improvement of the slope of the sidewalk
  • Improvement of steps between sidewalks and manholes
  • Improvement of steps between roadways and manhores
  • Securing flat areas of sidewalks connected to pedestrian crossings
  • Installation of blocks for guiding visually impaired persons (sidewalk entanglement)
  • Relocation of car stoppers
  • Removal or relocation of benches
  • Improvement of the longitudinal slope of the sidewalk
  • Improvement of steps at the edge of the pedestrian crossing
• Projects that will take advantage of opportunities to consider maintenance
  • Securing walking space

Route 7: Kamakura Michi
This is the route from the position intersection to the Ito-Yokado position store.

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Improvement of steps (boundary stake)

Route 8: Chogo Kaido
It is a route from the standpoint intersection to the north exit of Tateba Station.

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Installation of easy-to-understand information boards

Route 9: In front of position district center
It is a route from the north exit of Tateba Station to the position district center.

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Improvement of steps between sidewalks and roadways
  • Installation of easy-to-understand information boards

[Traffic Safety Specific Business]
Life-related routes

• Projects that will take advantage of opportunities to consider maintenance
  • Installation of sound traffic lights, etc.
  • Strengthening the crackdown on illegal parking
  • Promotion of public relations and awareness-raising activities related to the prevention of illegal parking
  • Ensuring visibility of signs and labels
  • Implementation of traffic regulations

Route 4: Chogo Kaido
It is a route from Izumi-Chuo Station entrance intersection to Izumi-housing complex entrance intersection.

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Abolition of bicycle crossing belts and examination of the location of pedestrian crossings
• Projects that will take advantage of opportunities to consider maintenance
  • Installation of acoustic signals

Route 5: Chogo Kaido
The route from Izumi housing complex Entrance Intersection to Tando Entrance Intersection.

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Abolition of bicycle crossing belts and examination of the location of pedestrian crossings

Route 6: Chogo Kaido
It is the route from the Tando entrance intersection to the position intersection.

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Abolition of bicycle crossing belts and examination of the location of pedestrian crossings
• Projects that will take advantage of opportunities to consider maintenance
  • Installation of sound traffic lights, etc.

[Building Specific Business]
Izumichuo Station Square

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Ensuring and improving flatness
• Projects that will take advantage of opportunities to consider maintenance
  • Maintenance of easy visual identification of stage nose

Izumi Ward Citizens' Culture Center Theatrefonte

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Improvement of visually easy identification of step nose of stairs
  • Improvement to non-slip floor surface
  • Improvement of signage to elevators

Izumichuo Community Care Plaza

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Improvement of block for guiding visually impaired persons (securing luminance ratio and brightness difference)
• Projects that will take advantage of opportunities to consider maintenance
  • Installation of block for guiding visually impaired persons (catch block)

Izumi public hall

• Projects that will take advantage of opportunities to consider maintenance
  • Improvement of the slope of the external aisle
  • Installation of information signs, etc. indicating the position of the slope
  • Improvement of visually easy identification of step nose of stairs

Izumi Ward General Government Building

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Implement measures such as enlightenment of manners for parking bicycles, etc.
  • Improvement of block for guiding visually impaired persons (securing luminance ratio and brightness difference)
  • Installation of information signs, etc. indicating the position of the slope
  • Improvement of lid of drain (bolt stop)
• Projects that will take advantage of opportunities to consider maintenance
  • Consider improvement of drain lids

JA Yokohama Izumi Branch

• Projects that will take advantage of opportunities to consider maintenance
  • Improvement of block for guiding visually impaired persons

Izumi Branch of the Bank of Yokohama

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Implement measures such as enlightenment of manners for parking bicycles, etc.
  • Installation of block for guiding visually impaired persons (catch block)

Yokohama Shinkin Bank Izumi Branch

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Installation of blocks for guiding visually impaired persons (facility entrance)

Ito-Yokado Store

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Installation of block for guiding visually impaired persons (catch block)

（１） Other routes that require consideration
"Kamakura Michi" has many problems at the Izumi-Chuo Station and Tateba Station Area Subcommittee, such as "There are many pedestrians, but the sidewalk is not maintained at present." . However, large-scale maintenance with land acquisition is necessary to set up sidewalks, and it is difficult to resolve early in light of the current situation. For this reason, as for the life-related route from Tateba Station to the standpoint district center, a route from Route 7 to Route 9 was set, and "installation of easy-to-understand information boards" was positioned as a business.
In the future, in order to secure a barrier-free route, we will consider it based on the progress of parallel urban planning roads.

（２） Barrier-free buildings
About barrier-free in building, it is necessary for building owner, manager, occupant (tenant) of building to cooperate and make barrier-free, and opportunity of large-scale repair such as rebuilding In some cases, maintenance cannot be carried out unless it is.
Therefore, for buildings set as life-related facilities in this basic design, building owners will fully recognize the concept of facilitating standards such as building movement, and make barrier-free from where possible. In addition, taking advantage of opportunities for large-scale renovations such as rebuilding, we will consider conforming to the standards.

In Yokohama City, we have set up a subcommittee around Izumi-Chuo Station and Tateba Station, which is composed of academics, citizens such as the elderly and the disabled, and related businesses and administrative organizations, and have been examining it. .

Up to now
1st District Subcommittee (August 30, 2011)

• Understanding the contents of the barrier-free law and basic concept
• Understanding the current situation of the district
• Examination of the scope of priority maintenance areas
• Study routes to make barrier-free

2nd District Subcommittee (November 21, 2011)

• Implementation of town walk inspections

3rd District Subcommittee (July 18, 2012)

• Arrangement of inspection results, etc.
• Examination of issues and countermeasures in the district

4th District Subcommittee (December 18, 2012)

• Examination of the basic concept plan (original draft)

After basic design development, each company formulates business plan based on basic design and, in principle, carries out business with the goal of 2017.

• We will promote the smooth development of various specific business plans and the implementation of business.
• We try to inform citizens about progress management and business contents of business widely.
• Based on trends in new technological development, we will consider revising our business to make it barrier-free as necessary.

Contact information
Road Policy Promotion Section, City of Yokohama, Road and Highway Bureau Road Policy Promotion Department
Address: 10 22nd floor, 6-50 Honcho, Naka-ku, Yokohama 231-0005, Japan
Telephone: 045-671-4086
FAX： 045-550-4892
E-mail: do-barrierfree@city.yokohama.jp

Izumi Ward Office Ward Administration Promotion Division Planning and Adjustment Section
Address: 3F, Izumi Ward Office, 5-1-1 Izumi Chuo-Kita, Izumi-ku, Yokohama 245-0024, Japan
Telephone: 045-800-2332
FAX： 045-800-2505
E-mail: iz-kusei@city.yokohama.jp