The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism's Hokuriku Regional Development Bureau Takada River and National Highway Office and Nagaoka National Highway Office have announced that due to abnormal winter snowfall, National Routes 8, 17, 18, 116, Hokuriku Expressway, Kanetsu Expressway, As a new method of providing information in the event of an outage on the Shin-Etsu Expressway, we will implement a service that delivers information to smartphones using "push notifications."
■Information distribution period
November 20, 2020 - March 29, 2020
■Information to be distributed
Information will be delivered via push notification when the following events occur.
① Traffic closure regulations and lifting of road closures on National Route 8, National Route 17, National Route 18, and National Route 116
② Occurrence and elimination of undriveable vehicles on National Route 8, National Route 17, National Route 18, and National Route 116
③ Traffic closure regulations and lifting of road closures on Hokuriku Expressway, Kanetsu Expressway, and Joshinetsu Expressway
④ Implementation and lifting of chain restrictions on the Joshinetsu Expressway
⑤ Implementation and cancellation of instructions for wearing chains on large vehicles on National Route 8, National Route 17, National Route 18, National Route 116, Hokuriku Expressway, Kanetsu Expressway, Joshinetsu Expressway
Information source:
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Takada River National Highway Office
https://www.hrr.mlit.go.jp/takada/
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Nagaoka National Highway Office
https://www.hrr.mlit.go.jp/chokoku/index.html