WORK will start today to install a new overhead gantry on the M6 toll near Cannock and additional equipment to the variable message signs on the M6 in the Midlands.
A total of 21 electronic variable message signs have been installed along a 12-mile stretch, as well as the Midas system and nine new CCTV cameras, which will allow traffic officers operating from the Highways Agency's regional control centre in Wakefield to monitor the route and deal with incidents more efficiently.
Variable Message Signs Limited (VMSL), the UK's leading supplier of driver information systems based in Hebburn, South Tyneside, has been awarded the contract for the supply and installation of driver information signs in the West Midlands.
Hebburn-based Variable Message Signs (VMS) has won about a third of the pounds 185m four-year contract to put signs giving detailed information about traffic across the UK road network.
Known as variable message signs, the hitech signs have been placed along the Cross Docks route linking the M53 in Wallasey through to Birkenhead at a cost of pounds 100,000.
A bus equipped with a global positioning system that calculates and relays departure and arrival times to variable message signs posted along its route enables visitors and employees to check the shuttle schedule and navigate the park easily.
