Japan is experiencing a wave of bad weather that has reached the point where city streets are filled with snow and traffic has been disrupted since last Friday for several days. Today, the authorities were able to liberate all the remaining vehicles stranded on the “Kan-Itu” highway, which was hit by snow after more than 50 hours of traffic paralysis, mainly in Niigata Prefecture.
Snow removal from the road
And the “Japan in Arabic” account on “Twitter” published pictures of snow removal from the road to open the way for all trucks and vehicles trapped in snow. It left the highway linking Tokyo and Niigata, central Japan, on Monday, and closed sections will be reopened after clearance work. Ice and safety confirmation.
Opening the road for stuck trucks
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Traffic paralysis began on the lanes heading to Tokyo last Wednesday, as heavy snowfall covered Niigata and other prefectures, and the number of stranded vehicles rose to 2,100 vehicles, including 350 trapped on Niigata lanes.
Earlier, video footage had shown the longest column of vehicles and trucks stranded on roads in Japan for more than 16 kilometers due to the snow closure of roads, and more than a thousand vehicles appeared stranded due to the snow storm, and the length of the queue of vehicles stranded over 16 kilometers. Meters, and the snow storm caused traffic jams and landslides in some areas, while rescue teams deployed on the roads to try to remove snow to move traffic.
The Japanese government and police forces announced, last Thursday, that about a thousand cars were trapped on the highways, and more than 10 thousand homes were cut off electricity after heavy snow covered a large area along the coast of the Sea of Japan.
