Originally Posted by
joejones
NHK said tonight that they were still getting stuck cars off of the closed expressways late this morning. Because of the lack of shoulders, traffic basically stopped completely once there were slip wrecks, and this led to snow piling up around the stopped cars and making them more difficult to extricate.
There is also the issue that most expressways here are elevated and thus prone to surface ice at relatively mild temperatures.
Interesting. The shuto-ko in Yokohama is still closed. But a lot of exits and entrances show up as being closed, so you can't get on and off in many places. However, I was looking out over Kandabashi exit around 18:30 and cars could certainly exit there going clockwise on C1.
There was really no icing Monday during the day when the snow fell. Air temp was several degrees plus. I guess the morons were just out driving too fast in the slushy snow on wide profile summer tires on the shuto-ko and got into accidents and then just walked away from their cars. Brilliant.
Oh yeah, a section of the Wangan route outbound is still closed. That's the route that Limo buses to NRT take.