"Aversion [ to a vehicle ]" It started in the gasoline jump. It is an opening to the number decrease of passing, and a parking lot.

A car is disappearing from Tokyo. The number of passing became fewer and traffic congestion has decreased. Influence of a parking lot is the greatest. An opening increases and utility time is short. The gas price soared with the level of 180 yen per l., and the drivers who refrain from use of a car have actually increased in number.
■ Traffic congestion decreased clearly?
May, 2008 of the average use number per day of Metropolitan Expressway was the 1,109,000 stand of a 1.5% decrease compared with the corresponding month of last year. In the person's in charge talk, business-use tracks and cars are decreasing in number especially. This tendency is conspicuous from the winter of 07. 1st, 07 in December, 1,073,179 sets, a 0.5% decrease, will continue 1,154,090 sets, a 2% decrease compared with the corresponding month of last year, and January, 08, 1,111,658 sets, a 3.4% decrease, will continue February, and, as for the number of balance beams, 1,188,373 sets, a 0.8% decrease, and 1 to 3% of reduction continue March. But the press officer of metropolitan quantity is the receptacle stop "it is a decrease of fine."
The person in charge of Japan Road Traffic Information Center which disseminates traffic congestion information is saying, "Although there is nothing statistical, in a metropolitan area, he thinks that traffic congestion is decreasing." The opinion "traffic congestion decreased clearly compared with before" is going up also from the user. Moreover, if the amount of passings is decreasing also in a general national highway in the city of Tokyo, the road plan second division, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, is looking.
It is clear that the price increase of successive gas prices serves as a trigger. It soars from around the summer of 07, and bottom がった of an end is continuing going up again from May in April, 08. The major new Nippon Oil in an oil material sales company will pull up 8 yen per l. 40 sen in July, and there is also a gas station exceeding 180 yen.
■ A metropolitan area parking lot "buried only about 60%"
Cars decreased in number and the parking lot has received the blow most. Although there were 53 city planning parking lots which Tokyo manages, in the basement car park of the Shibuya Miyashita park, it began to fall from 07 which rise in price of the gas price accelerated.
It is said that it is the present condition "buried an about 60 [ of 286 sets of parking spaces ] weekday." The neighborhood has much leisure spot, such as a futsal place, and use increases on a holiday. However, if it was a holiday before ", it was buried immediately, but it takes time now. It is being said that there is also a day which does not become 満車." Compared with 2007 or before, the number of parking of the basement car park (158 sets) in the Shinbashi station east gate decreases no less than 20%, and it is in a serious situation.
A person in charge says the "8-fold state (east and west) parking lot" which 589 sets can accommodate "is shortening [ the number of use is becoming fewer, and also ] utility time." Although it is places with much [ from the first ] demand, such as those who do some shopping in a near department store "Daimaru", and a passenger of the Shinkansen, it is not new also when now displayed as a "vacant taxi." However, it is saying, "The luxury cars which do not care about gasoline cost are not decreasing in number."
Even in Park 24 (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo) which manages the parking lot for 220,000 sets all over the country, it admits "Operation of a parking lot is affected." A driver becomes "sensitive" by the jump of a gas price, and it is expected that it has led to shortening of a "riding duplicate" and utility time.
"Aversion [ to a vehicle ]" It started in the gasoline jump. It is an opening to the number decrease of passing, and a parking lot.