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Sign Of The Times For East Ayrshire Council
The public sector division of Horizon Signs, recently secured a contract to develop, manufacture and install a unique bus stop pole solution for East Ayrshire Council and Vix ACIS.
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Horizon recently undertook a new and somewhat different project for Opsource, a long standing customer of our sister company Horizon BSF. Opsource were tasked with finding high quality cycle shelters and cycle lockers and although there were similar products in the market they were keen to task Horizon with producing something they could use on the project and roll out to the wider market.
Read More Top of pageGoing Underground
Horizon has worked in partnership with Nexus, the Passenger Transport Authority in Tyne and Wear, to provide a solution for the signage problems in its Haymarket Metro underground station.
Tyne and Wear Metro is a light rail system with 60 stations serving Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland, North Tyneside and South Tyneside. It currently carries over 40 million passenger journeys a year and in January 2010 Nexus secured over £350 million from the Government in funding to invest in the Metro’s renewal and modernisation.
As part of Haymarket improvements, Nexus was looking for a company that could produce and install large curved, lit poster frames to follow the curvature of the underground walls. Nexus was struggling to find a company which could fulfil this until Horizon stepped forward and worked in partnership with them to develop a specially designed unit.
Read More Top of pageWalking on the Sun
Horizon Signs has worked closely with the market leader in outdoor advertising, to develop an innovative, energy saving, solar powered bus stop.
This looks like a standard bus stop but it has a solar panel head fitted to the top of it. In the solar head there are batteries which store the solar energy generated during the day to power the LEDs at night, lighting up the bus stop flag and the timetable at the push of a button.
This extra lighting will allow passengers to easily read the timetable, which is especially useful with winter approaching and the nights drawing in earlier. We know that many councils are trying to cut down on the use of street lamps due to energy costs, this solution would assure those travelling on public transport that they would not be left in the dark and the bus stops would be clearly visible to drivers.
Read More Top of pageGraffiti Problem Wiped Out
Horizon Signs has developed a new design of bus stop post aimed at solving the serious problems of graffiti and vandalism faced by many councils throughout the country.
Graffiti is notoriously difficult and expensive to remove so in order to combat this, we designed a PVC castellated sleeve which was simply slipped over an existing post and discourages the graffitist as anything sprayed on it does not show up.
This proved to be a good solution for the councils and encouraged us to develop an aluminium version, as well as to provide a secure fastening for the timetable case, which eliminates the potential for vandalism of the fixings.
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