A Study on Access Road in the Period of Legislation of the Initial Road Law

Abstract

Both the initial Road Law and the initial City Planning Law were approved in 1919 This paper is a historical study on the legislation work for the Road Law between 1890 to 1919. The content are as follows. (1) In the 1910’s technical standards of the road bill, access road was excluded from the investigation. Before 1910 however, many ideas were discussed. (2) The minimum width of access road was provided 2.7m(9shaku) in 1919 directly as the building ordinance of those days had provided. Later it brought about many problems.