Tsuzuki Ward   Town Center Area Barrier-Free Basic Concept

In Yokohama City, based on the Barrier-Free Law, we have formulated a basic concept for promoting barrierTsuzuki Ward   Town Center so that everyone, including the elderly, disabled, and those raising children, can move smoothly and use stations and facilities.
In the future, each company will create a business plan based on this basic concept, and will implement the project sequentially.

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The area around Tsuzuki Ward   Town Center consists of commercial, business, cultural, and public service functions centered on Yokohama Municipal Subway Blue Line and Green Line stations.

For the basic barrier-free concept, we established the "Tsuzuki Ward   Town Center Neighborhood District Subcommittee" consisting of academics, citizens such as the elderly and disabled, and related businesses and administrative organizations.

Chair: Professor Omori, Department of Urban Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo

We introduced the "New Barrier-Free Law" and the "Basic Barrier-Free Basic Concept" and exchanged opinions on the current situation in the area around Tsuzuki Ward   Town Center.

We examined the area of the priority maintenance area and the target routes, and further examined how to proceed with the next “Town Walk Inspection Workshop”.

We widely solicited information related to barrier-free facilities in the area around Tsuzuki Ward   Town Center.

In addition to the members of the district subcommittee also participated, and after actually checking the site and summarized the issues.

We arranged result of "town walk inspection workshop" and examined problem of district and measures to cope with it.

In response to the issues of the district obtained through the “Town Walk Inspection Workshop” and the countermeasures against it, we examined the basic design draft that compiled the basic design together.

About Tsuzuki Ward   Town Center neighborhood district barrier-free basic design draft, we carried out citizen opinion offer to have opinion from users widely and to reflect in development of barrier-free basic design.

We examined opinion and correspondence obtained by citizen opinion offer and examined basic design original draft based on the result.