Enhanced and Variable Messaging Service
Drivers in Liverpool are going to find it easier to avoid traffic jams thanks to a new electronic messaging system
Signs have been installed to provide information about traffic conditions on the roads and advise about incidents, accidents, unusual congestion and direct traffic to more appropriate routes. It is now possible to adjust traffic signal timings to make the traffic flow more smoothly.
The scheme was introduced in two phases. Phase one signs went up at the following locations around the inner cordon of the city centre:
- Great Howard St / Leeds St
- Scotland Rd / Rotunda St
- Scotland Rd / Juvenal St
- Hunter St
- West Derby Rd / Grange St
- Prescot Road / Lister Rd
- Edge Lane / Botanic Rd
- Wavertree Rd / Botanic Rd
- Smithdown Rd / Webster Rd
- Sefton St / Pleasant Hill St
Phase 2 of the scheme focused primarily on the outer cordon of Queens Drive and other major strategic routes. The locations were:-
- Leeds St / Naylor St
- Shaw St / New Islington
- Erskine St / Manfred St
- Lodge Lane / Croxteth Grove
- Princess Rd/ Upper Parliament St
- Rice Lane Near to the Plough Inn
- East Lancashire Rd / Townsend Ave
- Queens Drive / Muirhead Ave
- St James St / Upper Parliament St
- Queens Dr / Mill Lane
- Queens Dr / East Prescot Rd
- Childwall Valley Rd / Queens Dr
- Menlove Ave / Queens Dr
- Allerton Road / Queens Dr
- Speke Road
- Speke Boulevard
- Bowring Park Road
- Southport Road
- Derby Road
Siemens Traffic Controls Ltd were appointed to implement the system and signs. The control of the signs is now being integrated with other traffic systems in the existing traffic control room and operated by 2020Liverpool.
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