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Highways event focuses on budgets, road safety

The future of Britain’s highways industries, including maximising reduced budgets and improving road safety, forms the core of the conference programme at the Seeing is Believing event. With a keynote address and introduction by Roads Minister Mike Penning MP, Seeing is Believing, a combination of industry conference, trade exhibition and live demonstrations, has his full support, and is being held at a purpose-designed venue at the MIRA site, near Nuneaton, County Warwickshire, England, from 9-11 November
May 15, 2012 Read time: 2 mins
The future of Britain’s highways industries, including maximising reduced budgets and improving road safety, forms the core of the conference programme at the Seeing is Believing event.

With a keynote address and introduction by Roads Minister Mike Penning MP, Seeing is Believing, a combination of industry conference, trade exhibition and live demonstrations, has his full support, and is being held at a purpose-designed venue at the 3158 MIRA site, near Nuneaton, County Warwickshire, England, from 9-11 November, 2010 (www.sib.uk.net).

Leading organisations and professional bodies representing such diverse interests as the 2309 Highways Agency; the Parliamentary All-Party Committee for Transport Safety (PACTS); the 6045 Institute of Highways Engineers; the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation, and the Association for Road Traffic Safety and Management (ARTSM), all of whom are at the sharp end of traffic engineering and construction/maintenance product developments, are taking part over the three days.

They will be joined by the Association of Industrial Road Safety Officers, the Reflective Equipment Manufacturers Association, the 1360 Asphalt Industry Alliance and 3512 ITS UK.

Event organiser Neil Levett said: “The Coalition Government is committed to reducing the massive debt the UK faces and the highways industry is highly likely to see reduced spending and cut budgets. It is the duty of the industry’s leading players, including manufacturers, service providers and professional associations, to make this possible at the same time as not compromising on road safety.”

Seeing is Believing is being billed as ‘Triple Vision,’ a conference, a trade exhibition and the opportunity to experience products during the daytime, in the evening and in low light conditions, and on a range of different visual levels.

As a biennial event Seeing is Believing will not take place again until 2012.

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