During the first half of the Meiji Era, the traffic by newly introduced wheeled vehicles such as horse carriages increased gradually, in addition to the traditional foot and horseback traffic. To accommodate such wheeled vehicle traffic, the construction and improvement plans of the national highway system and local main road system were started.
In Nagano prefecture, the construction plan of the seven new main highway lines were proposed by Governor Oono Makoto of the prefecture, and the plan was approved by the prefectural assembly in 1882. The construction of the seven highways, total length of 297km and costed about 870, 000 yen, was the most important large scale undertaking in the road administration of Nagano prefecture in Meiji Era.
From analyses of the various documents at that time including route survey maps, specifications for construction works, drawings of bridges, accounts survey and others, the state of road administrations and road engineering at that time are proved as the steady first step of modern way of working. In addition to this, the report of De Reijke on highways and roads are quoted. He made a tour of inspection around the prefecture in 1890 and pointed out several problems of the 2nd Highway Section between Ueda and Matsumoto.
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