Road and amenity

The M7 project has been described as creating new opportunities for the Southwest and the Midlands by improving the infrastructure and communications for industry and agriculture with Dublin Port. The latest 17.5km section from Kildare to Port Laoise, opened by Minister for Transport Mr Martin Cullen TD in November 2004, was completed a year ahead of schedule, and was lit by Arc highway lanterns from WRTL Exterior Lighting.

Britain´s first toll motorway - the 27 mile M6 Toll, Birmingham Northern Relief Road - is the focus of much public attention, so it was important that the road lighting delivered minimal environmental impact, optimum efficiency and low maintenance requirements. WRTL Exterior Lighting Ltd was able to project manage this very large scale and complex lighting scheme within tight time constraints, including nearly 4000 Vectra lanterns for highway and slip road lighting, floodlighting for the 10 toll stations and low maintenance 2816 tunnel luminaires in the new M6 underpass tunnel.

By Nick Lakin, Marketing Manager, of WRTL Exterior Lighting who looks at how lighting makes a significant impact on security within multi-storey car parks and how WRTL´s Dutch colleagues are lighting the way for us.

The ARC from WRTL, which enabled us to improve our lighting to CEN ME1 standards, without having to increase the mounting height. It was also highly competitive in price, and we have been able to mount it on a simple straight bracket that overlaps the existing column and prevents water ingress into the column as well.

Vectra lanterns met the highway engineers' lighting specifications at a competitive price. They are highly efficient fittings, and it is noticeable how well lit this portion of the new motorway is

It is entirely in keeping with the City of Dundee´s character that this powerhouse of Scots engineering enterprise is at the front of community lighting policy in the UK

Milton Keynes chose 250 Arc lanterns from WRTL Exterior Lighting to ensure optimum efficiency and light pollution control, at a competitive price.

The Newcastle and North Tyneside PFI which will replace up to 80% of the areas' street lighting within five years, promises to deliver palpable benefits to the local and general environment as well as directly to the ratepayers at street level.

A comprehensive programme to provide better lighting on all Scotrail overground platforms is underway with positive results, using WRTL Exterior Lighting's Vectra lanterns.