According to it, it is important to eliminate utility pole in urban roads that become urgent transportation roads in the event of a disaster, roads requiring barrier-free, the venue of the Tokyo Olympic Paralympic Games, the world culture There are four areas such as the area around the heritage.

The plan also includes numerical targets for maintenance for each area, for example, urban emergency transport roads are 34% as of the end of March last year, to 42% by 2020 by the year 2020, The surroundings of cultural heritage are said to be raised from 37% to 79%. This aims to eliminate utility pole with 1,400 kilometers in the next 3 years.

Until the middle of next month, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport will decide on a concrete road to eliminate utility poles together with electric utilities and local municipalities after taking procedures to hear opinions from the public.

Since it is said that it takes 500 million yen per kilometer to fill wires and the like in the ground, how to control the cost is a challenge. Ishii The Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism stated at a press conference after the Cabinet meeting that he would like to achieve the goal by thinking about construction methods to reduce costs and advancing financial support.