10 highways projects
From pedestrian safety to traffic management solutions
UK highways teams are under constant pressure.
They must maintain aging infrastructure, improve safety for vulnerable road users, and respond quickly to damaged street furniture. All while minimising traffic management costs and public disruption.
NAL has worked with local authorities across the UK to address these challenges directly.
Scroll through 10 highways projects showcasing just some of the NAL highways range, and the different challenges we help solve.
Explore sector: Highways & cycle routes
1. Minimising disruption on collision-prone routes
📍Location: Bath
🪛 Solution: RS80 retention socket
📌 Highlight: Supporting the rapid replacement of chevron signs on high-speed roads where vehicle collisions are common and repeat civils would cause public disruption.
2. Keeping access discreet in an urban city centre
📍Location: Isle of Man
🪛 Solution: Recessed covers and frames
📌 Highlight: Integrating access into a regenerated pedestrian high street, with recessed covers that integrate neatly into the city-centre surface.
3. Managing high-impact tram infrastructure
📍Location: York Place, Edinburgh
🪛 Solution: X-Last Baliza D150 bollards installed in retention sockets
📌 Highlight: Providing a durable, flexible barrier between the tram route and parallel road lane - with bollards able to withstand repeat impacts without sustaining damage.
4. Future-proofing seasonal events
📍Location: Selkirk, Walsall Wood, and Newcastle University campus
🪛 Solution: NAL retention sockets for Christmas trees
📌 Highlight: Creating reusable installation points for seasonal Christmas trees. When not in use, the sockets can be safely plugged, or support smaller-diameter street furniture.
5. Eliminating repeat civils at traffic islands
📍Location: Dumfermline
🪛 Solution: Weebol bollards with retention sockets
📌 Highlight: Providing a demountable keep-left bollard for refuge islands. Damaged assets can be released and replaced without excavating and rebuilding the foundation.
6. Protecting vulnerable pedestrians at school gates
📍Location: Withinfields Primary School, Halifax
🪛 Solution: X-Last (Pencil)
📌 Highlight: Making school crossings safer with bright bollards that prevent vehicles mounting the pavement, improve crossing visibility, and enhance pedestrian safety.
7. Supporting smoother travel journeys for the London Olympics
📍Location: London
🪛 Solution: Temporary foundation
📌 Highlight: Supporting the 2012 Olympic Games with temporary foundations to house signage directing athletes and officials to events - as well as securing pedestrian barriers.
8. Maintaining heritage street scenes without disruption
📍Location: City Walls Road, Worcester
🪛 Solution: RS60 retention sockets for decorative guardrail within the central reserve
📌 Highlight: Enabling authorised personnel to replace damaged railings within minutes, without disturbing the finished surface or requiring costly, disruptive traffic management.
9. Safeguarding cyclists on major urban routes
📍Location: A38, Birmingham
🪛 Solution: X-Last (Nuvo Sign) & composite socket
📌 Highlight: Reducing risk to cyclists with passively safe, impact-rebound bollards that help segregate two-way cycle lanes along a major city route.
10. Transforming town centre street furniture installation and maintenance
📍Location: Loughborough
🪛 Solution: Non-illuminated and surface-mounted retention sockets
📌Highlight: Supporting town centre regeneration with flexible, demountable street furniture foundations that can be easily relocated or replaced as the public realm evolves, without costly excavation works.
✅ Let's solve your highways infrastructure challenges
These projects demonstrate how NAL systems help UK highways teams address common infrastructure challenges.
The results are consistent: lower whole-life costs, improved safety outcomes, and reduced disruption. As highways budgets remain under pressure, the ability to replace, remove, and maintain assets without excavation or extensive traffic management represents a significant operational advantage.
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