About the Expressway closures and disaster occurrences in Hokkaido

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July 5, 2018
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.
Hokkaido Regional Head Office

Hokkaido Regional Head Office of the canal Expressway for the occurrence of road closures and disasters, NEXCO EAST Hokkaido Regional Head Office than (Sapporo Atsubetsu-ku), we will inform you as follows.

1 Closed traffic

Currently, the following sections within the Hokkaido Regional Head Office are closed.

E5 Do-O Expressway Bi-directional Yakumo IC-Kunimi IC 5:50 on Thursday, July 5th

2 Road disaster situation

Doo Expressway Yakumo IC-Kunisumi IC About 15km from the Yakumo IC, there are road closures in the area of Expressway due to the collapse of slopes (two locations).

Landslide area (1) Length 50m x width 10m x height 3m
Landslide area (2) Length 25m x width 20m x height 3m

Image of detour

We apologize for the inconvenience, but we ask that you detour to Route 5.

3 Elimination of suspension of traffic

We have started the restoration work, and at the moment we have no prospect of releasing the road closure.

* The latest regulatory information is Drive traffic (DraTra) Please check with.

4 Disaster situation photo

[Photo taken at 9:30 at Hakodate]
[Shooting towards Hakodate 9:30]
[Photo taken at 12:30 taken toward Hakodate]
[Taking towards Hakodate 12:30]