SWARCO has installed a network of 27 variable message signs at some of the busiest highway locations in the northern UK’s Tyneside region. The signs give motorists key information to help them plan their journey and warn them of weather disruption and other potential hazards.
Planning and coordinating all works with each local authority was the major challenge, requiring some of the installations to be made in the dead of night. The city of Newcastle was the contracting local authority acting for the Nor
Machines from CIFA are playing an important role in providing protection during a port expansion job. There is a considerable need for additional sea protection during a major port expansion project in Italy. The port of Civitavecchia is being expanded as part of a programme to boost its capacity and capabilities and develop the facility both for its commercial and tourist operations.
However, the work comes with considerable need to improve the protection from the sea, so as to ensure that its roadways
UK and Ireland-based SRL Traffic Systems is adding 100 portable 32 x 32 pixel red-green-blue (RGB) activated signs from SWARCO to its fleet of products.
The design contract for Ireland’s Cork to Limerick motorway connection has now been awarded. The design package is worth €15 million and is being handled jointly by Irish firm JB Barry Transportation, Swedish company Sweco and WSP based in Canada. Building the 100km stretch of the M20 motorway is expected to cost €900 million, including eight major bridges over rivers, 44 smaller bridges over roads and two bridges over rail links. The work would also include building some small river crossings as well as up
