NAL LTD has launched a new purpose built demonstration site which
encompasses a fully operational street scene alongside a fully ducted
crash site. Attendees will gain an insight into the requirements for
passive safe designs under EN12767. They will witness different crash
impacts with various types of street furniture, explore the benefits of
using NAL's intelligent foundation system and MUCH MORE!

The UK Roads "Road Shows" recently featured in Highways magazine. To read the article please click on the link below:

The Highways Agency has confirmed it is content for the new Lattix Mast 4412 to be used on England's Motorway & Trunk Road network. The new mast is the smallest in the Lattix range.

For more details visit: http://www.signfix.co.uk/news-details.asp?NID=70

Wiltshire Council played host to our latest UK Roads "Road Show" on the 3rd March. Twenty Eight employees from both Mouchel and Wiltshire Council attended the event which contained a busy itinerary, with six speakers delivering a variety of presentations on issues of the day. 

The speakers, representing Traffic Solutions Ltd, Highway Care, Klaruw RMS, Post & Column, MTS and FLI Structures, were also on hand during lunch to answer questions from the audience during the event. We should like to thank Wiltshire Council for their hospitality during the day and look forward to visiting their offices again during 2010. Our next UK Roads "Road Show" takes place at the offices of Leeds City Council in Leeds on the 10th March.  

Essex County Council played host to our first 2010 UK Roads "Road Show" which took place on 20th January. Over 20 attendees were there to enjoy a busy itinerary, with six speakers delivering a variety of presentations on a variety of topics. 

The speakers, representing Charles Endirect Ltd, Highway Care Ltd, TMS Consultancy, Route Signs Ltd, MTS Ltd and SAPA pole products were also on hand  to answer questions raised by the audience during the event. We should like to thank Vicky Duff and Sarah Mead for their efforts in organising what was a very successful 'road show' and to Essex CC for their hospitality during the day.  We look forward to visiting the Essex CC offices in Chelmsford again later in the year.

The new post, which will be called the HElix post, is officially launched this month and will be available in the UK from February via Jerol's UK distributor, Post & Column Co. Ltd.

In their latest newsletter, SAPA announce the launch of a new 18m passively safe lighting column and a new range of passively safe sign posts. In addition IPL Group are confirmed as the SAPA distributor for Ireland.

An exciting new art project involving Margaret Calvert, celebrated as the co-designer of our iconic system of road signs, has been facilitated by Buchanan Computing using SignPlot software.

Margaret has teamed up with the well-known illustrator Marion Deuchars to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the M1 motorway with a dissection of one of its signs.

Margaret and Marion have based their work on one of the original cardboard and gouache ‘maquettes’, produced for the Worboys Committee on traffic signs in 1963.  This has been recreated in SignPlot (with a few minor adjustments for historical authenticity) and manufactured using materials appropriate to 1959 by Route Signs Ltd. 

Simon Morgan, MD of Buchanan Computing commented, "It has been very exciting to work with Margaret and Marion on this artwork and to gain an understanding of the aesthetic aspects and artistic potential of roadside objects that we usually take for granted." 

To see Margaret’s and Marion’s new take on the motorway sign, traffic signing and art aficionados need to visit the If You Could Collaborate exhibition at the A Foundation Gallery in Arnold Circus, London E2 between 15 and 24 January 2010.

TEc magazine has recently published two articles on the subject of motorcycle safety.

The Government is issuing guidance to Local Authorities to enable a reduction in the national speed limit from 60mph to 50mph to take place on selected rural A roads. They also want to see maximum speed limits of 20mph on all residential roads and near schools. An interactive map showing locations of crash fatalities occurring over the last ten years has been made available for public use.

Amey played host to our latest UK Roads "Road Show" which took place on 28th October. Over 30 attendees were there to enjoy a busy itinerary, with six speakers delivering a variety of presentations on issues of the day. 

The speakers, representing JPCS Ltd, Highway Care Ltd, TMS Consultancy, SignPost Solutions Ltd, MTS Ltd and ASD Metal Services Ltd were also on hand during lunch to answer questions raised by the audience during the event. We should like to thank Vincent Tait for his efforts in organising what was a very successful 'road show' and Amey for their hospitality during the day.  We look forward to visiting the Amey offices in Motherwell again next year.

Balfour Beatty and Mott MacDonald (HA Area 2 commission) played host to our latest UK Roads "Road Show" which took place on 7th October. Twenty five attendees were there to enjoy a busy itinerary, with seven speakers delivering a variety of presentations on issues of the day. 

The speakers, representing TMS consultancy, SAPA Ltd, Ryburn Rubber, Golden River, TMP Ltd, Sign Post Solutions and Route SIgns Ltd were also on hand during lunch to answer questions raised by the audience during the event. We should like to thank Mott MacDonald and Balfour Beatty for their hospitality during the day and look forward to visiting their offices again next year.

Our next UK Roads "Road Show" takes place at the offices of Telford and Wreakin Council on Friday 16th October.

Enterprisemouchel were the latest host to our UK Roads "Road Show" on 30th September. Over twenty employees from the Managing Agents of Area 1 attended the event which contained a busy itinerary, with six speakers delivering a variety of presentations on relevant issues of the day. 

The speakers, representing Ryburn Rubber, Highway Care, Stirling Lloyd, Post & Column, Simmonsigns, and The Passive Revolution were also on hand during lunch to answer questions raised by the audience during the event. We should like to thank Enterprisemouchel for their hospitality during the day and look forward to visiting the Area 1 offices again next year.

Our next UK Roads "Road Show" takes place at the offices of InterRoute in Bristol (HA Area 2) on the 7th October.  

If you work in a County, District or Borough Council, or a Consultancy that works for these organisations or an overseeing organisation like the Highways Agency, and would like UK Roads to hold a Road Show at your place of work, please contact us using the details on the home page of this site. Remember, these are absolutely free events that take place during lunchtimes at offices all over the UK.

Leicestershire County Council played host to our latest UK Roads "Road Show" on 25th September. Twenty two employees from the council attended the event which contained a busy itinerary, with seven speakers delivering a variety of presentations on issues of the day. 

The speakers, representing Brett Landscaping, Highway Care, TOFCO, Post & Column, Rennicks, The Passive Revolution and MTS were also on hand during lunch to answer questions raised by the audience during the event. We should like to thank Leicestershire CC for their hospitality during the day and look forward to visiting their offices again next year.

Our next UK Roads "Road Show" takes place at the offices of Enterprisemouchel in Exeter (HA Area 1) on the 30th September.  

Signpost Solutions, the company that introduced and spearheaded passively safe structures in the UK with the Lattix mast over 14 years ago have now picked up the baton for motorcyclists and introduced a crash cushion for roadside objects called Biker–Mate.

Our most recent UK Roads "Road Show" event took place on 26th August 2009 at the Edinburgh offices of BEAR Scotland. This was a well attended event and contained a busy itinerary, with six speakers delivering a variety of presentations to an audience of 16.

The speakers, representing Mallatite, Highway Care, Sign Post Solutions, FLI Structures, Buchanan Computing and Klaruw RMS, were also on hand during lunch to answer questions raised by the audience during the event. We should like to thank BEAR Scotland for their hospitality during the day and look forward to visiting other of their offices in the UK next year.

Our next UK Roads "Road Show" takes place at the offices of Durham County Council on the 2nd September.  

Our latest UK Roads "Road Show" event took place on 12th August 2009 at the Bristol offices of InterRoute (HA Area 2). This was a very well attended event and contained a busy itinerary, with five speakers delivering a variety of presentations to an audience of over 30.

The presenters, representing The Passive Revolution, BRISER, Astucia, Rediweld, JPCS and Rennicks/MTS Ltd. were also on hand during lunch to answer questions raised by the audience during the event. We should like to thank InterRoute for their hospitality during the day and look forward to visiting other InterRoute offices in the UK in due course.

Our next UK Roads "Road Show" takes place at the offices of BEAR Scotland in Edinburgh on the 26th August.  

CONE, temporary traffic management design software, has been updated to comply with the latest edition of Chapter 8. Further details here:

The annual IHIE Traffic Signs Conference and Exhibition now in it's 17th year is the foremost event for everyone involved in this area. With speakers from the DfT, Highways Agency, TfL and many other leading experts, can you afford to miss out?

New software from Buchanan Computing allows designers to make traffic sign structures cheaper, whilst at the same time improving their passive safety. 

Our latest UK Roads "Road Show" event took place on 22nd July 2009 at the Southampton offices of Mott Gifford. This was a well attended event and contained a busy itinerary, with six speakers delivering a variety of presentations to an audience of 28.

The presenters, representing The Passive Revolution, Brett Landscaping, Buchanan Computing, Screwfast Foundations, Sign Post Solutions and MTS Ltd. were also on hand to answer the many questions raised by the audience during the event. We should like to thank Mott Gifford for their hospitality during the day and look forward to visiting other Mott offices in the UK in due course.

Our next UK Roads "Road Show" takes place at the offices of Derbyshire County Council on the 5th August.  

This article was presented by The Guardian newspaper to give an overview of the relatively new scheme for 20 mph zones in residential roads in Portsmouth.  The article addresses the opinion of the author, that the scheme does not appear to be working, and drivers seem not to reduce their speeds.  An interesting read!

The Highways Agency has recently written to The Passive Revolution concerning the validity of passive products appearing in the "Table of available products" on The Passive Revolution website.

Our fourth UK Roads "Road Show" event took place on 8th July 2009 at the Perth offices of BEAR Scotland. This was a lively and stimulating event with four speakers delivering a variety of presentations to an audience of 13 composed of engineers from BEAR, Angus Council, Fife Council and Perth & Kinross Council.

The presenters, representing Post & Column, Highway Care, FLI Structures, Klaruw RMS and Ryburn Rubber Ltd. were also on hand to answer the many questions raised by the audience during the event. We should like to thank BEAR Scotland for their hospitality during the day and look forward to visiting their Edinburgh offices in August

Our next UK Roads "Road Show" takes place at the Exeter offices of Enterprise (HA Area 1). Companies presenting include NAL Ltd, SignPost Solutions Ltd, Screwfast Ltd and SAPA Pole Products.

SAPA announce the worlds first Passively Safe Aluminium Traffic Signal Pole which has been developed with the benefit of FULL crash testing and is subsequently the FIRST aluminium Traffic signal pole that has been endorsed by a Notified Body and designed to the EN12899 Norm.The column comes in a range of sizes from 2m up to 8m.

The column is unique in that it is the ONLY aluminium Traffic Signal Pole that has a diameter of 120mm for the majority of the pole, but which has a smaller diameter base to enable it to fit into the commonly used 114mm dia' ground sockets used today.

Government statistics released today show that the number of people killed on UK roads has reached a record low. 2,538 people were killed on Britain's roads in 2008, which is the lowest annual total since records began in 1926.

Our second UK Roads "Road Show" event took place on 24th June 2009 at the Ipswich offices of Atkins (Highways Agency Area 6). This was a lively event with four speakers delivering a variety of presentations to an audience of 11 employees of Atkins global.

The presenters, representing FLI Foundations, NAL Ltd, Clearview Traffic Ltd and Signpost Solutions Ltd. were also on hand to answer a series of in depth questions raised by the audience during the event.

Positive feedback was received by Carl Hills of Atkins, and Carl has already requested that a further event takes place at Ipswich later in the year.

Our next UK Roads "Road Show" takes place at the Norwich offices of Atkins (HA Area 6) on 1st July. Companies presenting include Brett Landscaping, Buchanan Computing Ltd, NAL Ltd, and Ryburn Rubber Ltd.

"A cultural history of our relationship with roads defies all expectations by making the everyday business of driving seem strangely fascinating" 

ON ROADS: A Hidden History by Joe Moran.

Read the review of this book in Sunday Times 7th June.  The book is published by Profile Books £14.99.

Also available from www.Amazon.co.uk

The first UK Roads "Road Show" event took place on 17th June 2009 at the Gillingham offices of InterRoute (Highways Agency Area 4). Four speakers delivered an eclectic mix of presentations to an audience of 25 employees of Mott MacDonald and Balfour Beatty.

The presenters, representing FLI Foundations, BRISER Ltd, Highway Care Ltd and The Post & Column Co. Ltd. were also on hand to answer questions raised by the audience during the event.

Positive feedback on the event was subsequently relayed back to UK Roads Ltd, and a further event is now scheduled to take place at Gillingham on 9th September.

The next UK Roads "Road Show" takes place at the Ipswich offices of Atkins (HA Area 6) on 24th June. Companies presenting include Signpost Solutions Ltd, NAL Ltd, Clearview Ltd and FLI Foundations Ltd.

The use of passively safe lighting columns and signposts is becoming increasingly common on both Highways Agency and local authority rural roads...