Pedestrian Safety Upgrade to City Traffic Lights
Pedestrians will be safer in Bendigo’s central business district with this week’s installation of Vivacity LED Safety Tactiles by the team at OmniGrip Direct. Following installations in Melbourne and Trafalgar in Victoria, and Dunedin in New Zealand, the Bendigo installation is the first in one…
Major Safety Upgrade to Highway Traffic Lights
OmniGrip Direct has installed Vivacity LED footpath lights in Trafalgar, Victoria, delivering a major safety upgrade to the pedestrian crossings of the busy Princes Highway. The footpath lights are Vivacity LED Safety Tactiles that change colour with the traffic lights. The site is the third…
Safer children at New Zealand traffic lights
LED footpath lights have been installed at a community traffic school in Dunedin, New Zealand, demonstrating the traffic light safety technology to children, their parents and carers. The new lights are Vivacity LED Safety Tactiles that change colour with the traffic lights. The installation of…
Is your surface genuine OmniGrip?
OmniGrip Direct will now advise Councils, asset managers and developers whether their contractors have purchased genuine OmniGrip Direct materials to use on their projects. When a Council, asset manager or developer’s architect or designer specifies one of OmniGrip Direct‘s products on its project, it’s because…
Guide to reducing road crashes and injuries with HFST
There’s something missing from the toolbox of road managers and road safety practitioners in Australia. A quick and easily applied solution that will keep all types of vehicles on the road, reducing crashes, injuries and deaths in high risk and Black Spot locations. It’s widely…
Designing Traffic Lights & Crossings for People with LED TGSI
The Vivacity LED Safety Tactile fundamentally rethinks how visual information is provided to pedestrians at traffic signals and pedestrian crossings for roads, tramlines and train tracks. It is a Tactile Ground Surface Indictor (TGSI) that incorporates LED lights that can be connected to traffic lights….
5 Shovel-Ready Projects for Stimulus Packages
Post COVID-19 economic stimulus will come from local, state and the Australian Governments and major businesses spending to accelerate the delivery of maintenance and projects. Compared to complex mega-projects, shovel-ready small and medium size projects delivered across a large area will ensure that projects are…
Strong Support for LED Safety Tactiles
There’s strong community support for SmarterLite’s Vivacity LED Safety Tactiles. The Tactiles were installed on Swanston Street in Melbourne, with funding from Victoria’s Transport Accident Commission (TAC). The project was managed by VicRoads (now Department of Transport) on their behalf. In addition to a survey…
Skid Resistant Pavement Marking
One of Australia’s leading road safety consultancies, Safe System Solutions, has recommended that OmniGrip CST be considered as a skid resistant pavement marking to reduce the loss of friction between tyres and the road surface. This is because large areas of paint-based pavement markings can…
Report finds LED Safety Tactiles make people feel safer
SmarterLite’s Vivacity LED Safety Tactile are making a real difference to how safe people feel walking in the City of Melbourne, Australia, according to a new market research report. Market research found that 68% of survey respondents felt that the LED lights in the footpath…