TII Motorway Service Areas (MSA) Progress Thread

Pete_Cavan · 18-01-2020 9:38pm

Are journey times on our motorways through the Midlands, away from the major urban centres likely to change that much that they need to be provided on VMS?

Sam Russell · 18-01-2020 10:17pm

I would of thought VMS displays are for warning of trouble ahead such as accidents, weather and the like.

Using it for time is a good purpose when it is not needed for the above is OK.

ongarboy · 20-01-2020 11:17am

BowWow wrote: »

You could also get an old trailer/container, paint it up with your brand name (say oh, something like Supermacs), then put it in a field beside the motorway well in advance of a service area.
Oh wait..

Interesting that the most professionally designed and aesthetically pleasing advertising totem signs are nearly always turned down by the planners as "injuring the visual amenity" yet those godawful, old abandoned truck containers leaning at a crooked angle on a hilly terrain can be plonked in any field across the country with fading and peeling garish adverts and no planning whatsoever is required....

silver2020 · 20-01-2020 11:00pm

ongarboy wrote: »

Interesting that the most professionally designed and aesthetically pleasing advertising totem signs are nearly always turned down by the planners as "injuring the visual amenity" yet those godawful, old abandoned truck containers leaning at a crooked angle on a hilly terrain can be plonked in any field across the country with fading and peeling garish adverts and no planning whatsoever is required....

there was a campaign to get rid of them a few years ago and many were taken away.

Some have been in situ for so long without intervention that they probably are exempt from planning at this stage.

jd · 22-09-2023 1:44pm

We were coming back from Belfast earlier this year in the early hours of the morning and stopped at Castlebellingham service area to use the rest room.

However there was no access to a rest room, you could use the petrol pumps if you had a card. Would this be a breach of the SLA with TII for operating an online service station on a motorway?