Tsurumi Station Area Traffic Barrier-Free Basic Concept

In Yokohama City, the target area of the basic concept based on the "Law Concerning the Promotion of Smooth Movement Using Public Transport for the Elderly and the Disabled" [commonly known as the Traffic Barrier-Free Law], which was enforced in 2000 (Priority Maintenance Area), four districts (Kannai, Tsurumi, Yokohama, Shin-Yokohama stations) were selected in advance, and the elderly and users, users, including the government, users and related businesses, including the disabled, and related businesses were examined.
On August 6, 2004, we devised a basic design in both the Kannai Station area and the Tsurumi Station area as the first traffic barrier-free basic design in Motoichi.

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In December 2008, a part of the specific route in the Tsurumi Station area barrier-free basic design and priority maintenance area was designated as a specific road by the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. (PDF of specific road designation map)： Area around Tsurumi Station (PDF: 1,110KB)）

The area around Tsurumi Station and Keikyu Tsurumi Station is the subcenter of Yokohama City, located in the center of Tsurumi Ward, and is home to business, commerce, public facilities, welfare and medical facilities.

In promoting the development of the basic design, we will set up the "Yokohama City Traffic Barrier-Free Special Committee" to have the basic design examined from a city-wide perspective, and conduct a specific study of the basic design for each target district. In order to do so, we set up the "Tsurumi District Subcommittee" and proceeded with the study.

• Yokohama City Traffic Barrier-Free Special Committee

Chair: Kan Nomura, Professor, Department of Architecture, Nihon University

Vice Chair: Kazuoki Ohara Associate Professor, Graduate School of Yokohama National University

• Tsurumi District Subcommittee

Chair: Minoru Yamada, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Ibaraki University

We selected four districts around Kannai Station, Tsurumi Station, Yokohama Station, and Shin-Yokohama Station as priority maintenance districts, and confirmed that we would proceed with the study.

We confirmed the structure of the Traffic Barrier-Free Law and discussed our efforts in the Tsurumi area and how to proceed in the future.

We confirmed the selection requirements for priority maintenance districts.

We confirmed related plans and planned projects in the Tsurumi area.

We performed a town walk inspection, and after the inspection, each group organized issues and examined countermeasures.

We arranged problems in district from town walk inspection and investigation of past years and examined area setting of important point maintenance district, route to push forward barrier-free.

Considering the importance of the project and the feasibility of maintenance, we examined the projects (specific projects) and routes to be implemented for barrier-free.

We confirmed the basic design draft of the two districts around Kannai Station and Tsurumi Station.

We carried out public comment for basic design draft of two districts around Kannai Station, Tsurumi Station.

Based on the opinions received in the public comment, we examined the basic design draft and decided the original draft as the district subcommittee.

We confirmed the draft of the basic concept created based on public comments and opinions received from the final subcommittees of both districts.