Basic Concept for Barrier-Free Area around Tsuzuki Ward   Town Center

Based on the Barrier-Free Law, Yokohama City has formulated a basic concept to promote barrier-free activities so that everyone, including the elderly, disabled, and those raising children, can move smoothly and use stations and facilities in areas centered on the Tsuzuki Ward   Town Center.
In the future, each company will create a business plan based on this basic concept and carry out the project sequentially.

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The area around Tsuzuki Ward   Town Center is an area where many people are active, with commercial, business, cultural and public service functions centered around Yokohama Municipal Subway Blue Line and Green Line stations.

The Basic Barrier-Free Concept was set up by the Tsuzuki Ward   Town Center Area Subcommittee, which consists of academics, citizens such as the elderly and disabled, and related businesses and administrative organizations.

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

We introduced the New Barrier-Free Law and the Basic Concept of Barrier-Free, and exchanged opinions on the current situation surrounding the Tsuzuki Ward   Town Center.

We examined the area of the priority maintenance area and the target routes, and also examined how to proceed with the next "Machi Walk Inspection Workshop".

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

In addition to the members of the district subcommittee, we actually checked the site and compiled the issues.

We arranged the results of the "Town Walk Inspection Workshop" and examined the issues of the district and countermeasures for it.

In response to the issues of the district obtained through the “Town Walk Inspection Workshop” and other measures to deal with them, we examined the basic design draft that summarizes the basic design.

We conducted a public opinion solicitation to receive opinions from users widely and reflect them in the development of the barrier-free basic concept draft around the Tsuzuki Ward   Town Center.

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