Hitex warns of ducks on the road in Addingham, West Yorkshire

Waddling ducks are a common sight along the narrow streets in the small English village of Addingham in West Yorkshire. Protecting them from road hazards has been a priority for years. The village has often used removable paint to decorate roads with yellow duck and duckling designs to alert motorists. But the village decided to seek a more permanent – and colourful - road safety solution to protect its feathered pedestrians. Jointline, a provider of road markings, airfield markings and high friction colou
February 8, 2018 Read time: 2 mins

Waddling ducks are a common sight along the narrow streets in the small English village of Addingham in West Yorkshire. Protecting them from road hazards has been a priority for years.

The village has often used removable paint to decorate roads with yellow duck and duckling designs to alert motorists. But the village decided to seek a more permanent – and colourful - road safety solution to protect its feathered pedestrians.

Jointline, a provider of road markings, airfield markings and high friction coloured surfacing solutions, was called in to solve the problem with a solution from 7819 Hitex.

Jointline installed three large duck road markings just in time for the Tour de Yorkshire professional bicycle race, stage 3 of which passed through the village in April.

It took a team of five around six hours to assemble and install the ducks, explained Mark Garrad, commercial manager at Jointline. Each of which was manufactured as a jigsaw using HiFlex preformed thermoplastic road markings from Hitex Traffic Safety, a global provider of road safety and surfacing materials. 

HiFlex provides a colourfast, highly durable road marking solution and is available in a range of patterns including numbers, letters, logos, symbols and colours. It can also be specified as a road lining tape and can be tailored to meet specific requirements.

Road Markings, Barriers & Workzone Protection

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

  • Cats eyes from Clearview set the tone at Switch Island in the UK
    February 23, 2018
    Cats eyes, which light up in response to changing traffic lights, will be used for the first time in the UK at a motorway junction. Highways England, the government agency, is installing around 170 of the LED road studs at Switch Island, one of England’s busiest motorway junctions – used by over 90,000 vehicles every day. Installation is expected to take around a year to complete.
    Read More
  • Barrier innovation putting traffic safety and flow first
    April 3, 2014
    Cutting-edge barriers offering greater safety at the same time as limiting traffic disruption are proving in demand on busy world highways, as Guy Woodford reports Small footprint; minimum disruption after impact; lower labour costs; all said to be elements contributing to the growing popularity of the Trend terminal from Trinity Highway Products. This family of end terminals offers a range of safe and efficient solutions to barrier ends with quick and easy assembly and installation. Trinity claims th
    Read More
  • Road repairs take to the air
    November 29, 2018
    Automated road repairs using 3D printing could save money and reduce disruption, reports Kristina Smith It’s the middle of the night and in the street below a team is busy carrying out repairs to the road surface. But there isn’t a human in sight. A road-repair drone has landed at the site of a crack and a 3D asphalt printer is now busy filling in that crack. A group of traffic cone drones have positioned themselves around the repair location to protect the repair drone and divert traffic around it.
    Read More
  • Finnish researchers EEE and VTT get a grip on black ice detection
    November 27, 2017
    Winter road maintenance could be getting more efficient, thanks to the Grip, a black ice detection system from two Finnish research organisations. The Grip allows drivers to detect in real-time slippery road conditions extremely accurately and with costs significantly lower than by any other methods already being used, according the two firms – EEE Innovations and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. The first application of this patented technology is being offered to commercial vehicle owners and
    Read More

Highlighted Content