Five steel posts supporting signs along Tokyo’s Metropolitan Expressway system have been removed due to cracks found in inspections following an accident involving a broken pole Tuesday, the Metropolitan Expressway Public Corp. said Wednesday.
The cracks were found during a probe of 327 signposts along the sprawling expressway network that began Tuesday afternoon.
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