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…
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….
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…
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…