Tokyo Prefecture Transportation Office

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The headquarters of the Traffic Department is located in the main building No. 2 of the prefecture administration ( Tōkyō-tochō daini honchōsha , English Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building No. 2 ) in Nishi-Shinjuku , Shinjuku district .

The Tokyo Prefecture Transport Authority ( Japanese 東京 都 交通局 , Tōkyō-to kōtsū-kyoku ) based in Shinjuku manages public transport in the Japanese prefecture of Tokyo . Among other things, it is one of two subway operators in Tokyo . These subways are known as Toei Lines ( 都 営 , toei means: "operated by the prefecture"). The other subway company is the Tokyo Metro .

The Tourist Office also operates the Toden Arakawa tram , the Ueno Zoo monorail , the Toei bus routes , the Nippori-Toneri Liner, and hydroelectric power plants. From 1952 to 1968 she operated with the Toei trolley and trolley buses , up to the extensive abolition in the 1960s and 1970s also the entire deaths-tram network , whose only remaining rest is the Arakawa Line, it became the 1,972th

Organizationally, it is part of the Tokyo Prefecture Administration - in contrast to companies that are directly subordinate to a department of the administration, as one of three public companies independently. The legal basis is the chihō-kōei-kigyō-hō ( 地方 公 営 企業 法 , for example "Law on Regional Public Enterprises"), which regulates the public operations of local authorities (prefectures or municipalities). In many other prefectures, public transport in the narrower sense of the word, i.e. public transport, which is borne by the state or local authorities, is mostly operated by the municipalities; in Nagasaki prefecture , a transport office of the prefecture administration also operates bus routes.

In the fiscal and fiscal year 2017, sales were around 165 billion yen , of which around 149 billion was for the subway and 39 billion for buses. The number of passengers carried over the year was just under 1.3 billion (subway: 1 billion, bus: 232 million, around 50 million in the other three traffic areas), which corresponds to around 3.5 million. Passengers per day; electricity generation fell to 92 GWh. In 2017, the metro generated operating profits (34 billion yen), and to a lesser extent the buses (0.8 billion yen after three years of losses), the monorail and power generation, the Nippori-Toneri Liner runs regularly, but losses are now declining one (2013: −1.3 billion yen; 2017: −0.43 billion yen). The number of employees as of March 31, 2018 was 6,374.

The forerunner of the Tokyo Prefecture Transportation Office, the "Tokyo City Electricity Office" ( Tōkyō-shi denki-kyoku 東京 市 電 気 局 ), was created in 1911 when the City of Tokyo bought the Tōkyō Tetsudō ("Tokyo Railway") company. This had started in 1882 as Tōkyō Basha Tetsudō ("Horse and Carriage Railway Tokyo") with the operation between Shimbashi and Nihombashi . The takeover marked the beginning of the urban tram network ( Shiden ) in Tokyo; The company also had a power supply network and three combustion power plants. After the great Kantō earthquake in 1923, denki-kyoku also operated city buses from 1924. In 1942, eight bus and tram companies were nationalized during the Pacific War and fell to the city. In the same year the electricity business was transferred to the Kantō Haiden as part of the centralization of the power supply on the basis of the National Mobilization Act - it became part of the Tōkyō Denryoku in the post-war period . The traffic office has existed under its current name since 1943, when it became part of the new prefecture administration when the independent city administration was dissolved. During the Great Air Raid on Tokyo ( Tōkyō Daikūshū ) on March 10, 1945, the Tourist Office recorded severe damage. New means of transport were added during the reconstruction: in 1952 the trolleybus, 1954 coaches with reservation, 1957 the monorail, 1960 the subway. Several businesses that do not belong directly to the company have now been outsourced to private companies, e. B. the subway construction in 1988. The renewed entry into power generation goes back to a resolution of the prefecture parliament in 1954. Then in 1955 the traffic authority began building the " Tamagawa No. 1 power plant " ( Tamagawa daiichi hatsudensho ) on Lake Okutama , later followed by the Shiromaru and Tamagawa No. 3 power plants.

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  1. ↑ 交通局 経 営 レ ポ ー ト , 2018 , p. 3 ff.
  2. ↑ a b 電 気 事業 の 歴 史
  3. ↑ 交通局 の あ ゆ み and subpages

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