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Overview of 4-lane section
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Overview of the Joshin-Etsu Expressway 4-lane business section
- Road name: E18 Joshin-Etsu Expressway
- 4 lanes: Shinanomachi IC (Nojiri, Shinanomachi, Kamimizunai District, Nagano Prefecture)
Business segment-Joetsu JCT (Nakayashiki, Joetsu City, Niigata Prefecture) - Section extension: 37.5km (4 lane construction extension: 24.7km)
- E18 Joshin-Etsu Expressway is E17 Kan-Etsu Expressway From Fujioka JCT to Gunma prefecture, Nagano prefecture, Niigata prefecture and Joetsu JCT. E8 It is Expressway with a total extension of about 203km that connects to Hokuriku Expressway.
- Of this, we have been constructing 4 lanes between Shinanomachi IC and Joetsu JCT for 37.5 km, but on December 7, last year we started operation of 4 lanes at 15.9 km in the same section, and an additional lane has already been installed Combined with 12.8km, 28.7km, which is about 80% of the same section, has four lanes.
- This section passes through one of Japan's leading heavy snowfall areas, and it has a steep slope where the elevation rises from 40m on the Sea of Japan side (near Joetsu JCT) to 680m on the Nagano side (near Shinanomachi IC). It has become.
