連休交通量、コロナ前の７７％　近畿・中京圏も渋滞増―高速道路４社

　東日本、中日本、西日本、本州四国連絡の高速道路４社は９日、ゴールデンウイーク期間（４月２８日～５月８日）の交通状況を公表した。全国主要４０区間の１日平均交通量は３万９２００台で、前年同期（４月２８日～５月５日）を３６％上回った。新型コロナウイルス流行前と比べても、２０１９年同期（４月２６日～５月６日）の７７％の水準にまで回復。首都圏だけでなく、近畿圏や中京圏でも渋滞回数が前年より増えた。
　今年も連休中に高速道路料金の休日割引が適用されなかったが、緊急事態宣言などの行動制限がなく、普通車を含む「小型車」の交通量が戻った。（2022/05/09-18:57）

Expressway traffic volume across Japan during this year's Golden Week holiday period recovered to 77 pct of the level before the COVID-19 outbreak, data showed Monday.
   The daily number of vehicles spotted in 40 surveyed sections averaged 39,200 in the period from April 28 through Sunday, according to the data from East Nippon Expressway Co., Central Nippon Expressway Co., West Nippon Expressway Co. and Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Expressway Co.
   The average grew 36 pct from a year before and reached 77 pct of the level reported during Golden Week in 2019, before the pandemic.
   The number of traffic jams increased from the 2021 level not only in the Tokyo metropolitan area in eastern Japan but also in the Kinki western and Chukyo central regions.
   This year, holiday discounts on expressway tolls were not applied during Golden Week. But traffic of standard-size cars, including subcompacts, recovered during the first Golden Week period without COVID-19 restrictions on travel in three years.