「JR東日本」新型踏切 
東日本旅客鉄道株式会社

“JR East” level crossing alarm 
EAST JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY

Category: Environment Date: 1993

A level crossing is the cross point of railway, pedestrian and vehicle. The level crossing is also that of railway operator, Construction and Transport Ministry, National Police Agency and local municipal administration.
Although current crossing is a high-tech facilities equipped with signal system, vehicle sensor and various communication cables installed under ground, its primary system has been descended from the one applied in 1897.
This particular crossing was redesigned and proposed as its symbolic characteristics in the environment while being improved toward twenty-first century.
At the same time, this was the trial to resolve jurisdictional boundaries existed in between plural governmental management for improving public facilities.