[E8] Flower bed construction with students from Shibata Agricultural High School at the Kurosaki PA Out-bound lane on the Hokuriku Expressway
~ Peaceful Highway Garden Project of Flowers and Greenery ~
Date and time: October 24, 2020 (Friday) 13:00-15:00
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- [E8] Flower bed construction with students from Shibata Agricultural High School at the Kurosaki PA Out-bound lane on the Hokuriku Expressway
October 14, 2020
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.
Niigata Regional Head Office Niigata Management Office
On Friday, October 24th, NEXCO EAST Niigata Management Office (Niigata City) will be creating flower beds with students from Shibata Agricultural High School at the Kurosaki Parking Area (PA) on Out-bound lane of the E8 Hokuriku Expressway.
This initiative, now in its 15th year, is being carried out as part of the "Flower and Greenery Peaceful Highway Garden Project," which aims to promote regional cooperation and create spaces where customers can feel refreshed and more comfortable at PAs by maintaining trees and flowers. The flowers carefully planted by the students will add color to Kurosaki PA, providing healing and energy to customers using Expressway.
1. 1. Date and time
October 24, 2020 (Friday) 13:00-15:00
- The event will proceed in light rain, but will be cancelled in bad weather. The decision on cancellation will be made at 1:00 PM on Thursday, the 23rd.
2. place
E8 Hokuriku Expressway Kurosaki PA Out-bound Line
(Kiba, Nishi-ku, Niigata City, Niigata Prefecture)
3. Content
We will work with students from Shibata Prefectural Agricultural High School to plant approximately 2,000 flower seedlings, including violas and dusty miller, which they have grown in the flower beds.
Four. participant
Niigata Prefectural Shibata Agricultural High School, Department of Environmental Science, Department of Flora and Horticulture, approximately 20 students and related parties
Approximately 20 NEXCO EAST Niigata Management Office group employees
What is "Flower and Green Peace Highway Garden Project"?
Rest facility We will create a "highway garden" that aims to create a community-like atmosphere and collaborate with the community, while making it easier to use the garden, etc., to provide a more relaxing and healing space for our customers. It is a project that we are promoting for.
NEXCO EAST Niigata Regional Head Office, along with regional cooperation, Hokuriku Expressway Nadachi Tanihama SA (Out-bound line), Yoneyama SA (In-bound line, Out-bound line), Kurosaki PA (Out-bound line), Kan-Etsu Expressway Echigo Kawaguchi SA (Out-bound line) This project is being implemented at five locations.
The NEXCO EAST Group has positioned the period from 2021 to 2025 as "a period that contributes to the achievement of the SDGs and transforms into a new future society," and is making various efforts.
The "Flower and Green Peace Highway Garden Project" is a project that plays a part in cooperation with local educational institutions, support for local education, and community development that allows people to continue living, and as an activity that includes the meaning of promoting greening, SDGs. We believe that it will contribute to the goals of 4, 11, 15, and 17.
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