Ritherdon - passively safe road products

Peter Hoban

Highways Sales Manager

24th June 2015

Innovative and passively safe street furniture

Think different AND do different!!!!!

Agenda

1 – Peter Hoban 2 - Ritherdon 3 - Innovative NEW products

Peter Hoban

Over 15 years selling to traffic calming, road safety, and AIP schemes

Peter Hoban

Introduced new products to market and won highways magazine award

Peter Hoban

Worked on major projects like operation lorry stack for HA (dover port)

Peter Hoban

Visited Europe and seen different ideas

Peter Hoban

Solving problems and meeting clients needs

Ritherdon

Family run

Over 115 years in business

Started making magic boxes

Stainless steel enclosure specialist

£3.8 million turnover

markets

Highways products

Housing products

UK power networks

General metalwork

Investment

Standard products ex works

Stainless steel cabinets

25 year guarantee No guarantee

bespoke

Bespoke –made to your needs

Why Ritherdon

Full in-house team to design from conception to full production

customers

Transport for London Euro car parks Vysionics Imtech, Siemens, Telent Hewlett Packard Chubb

We need NEW solutions

At what speed did a biker die impacting this?

At what speed did a pedestrian bruise his head?

Road safety street furniture Biker dies impacting hoop bollard at

17mph

20% deaths are bikers even though only account for 1% of road users

Street furniture especially on rural roads is deadly to bikers

Warwick town centre

NEW Flexipost and Flexipole

Why do we keep replacing like for like?

Flexipole sign system

One pole – any sign

Biker and cyclist friendly

Installed in 5 mins Signs replaced Tested 1000 impacts 5 year guarantee

Tested to 1000 impacts

Clifton bridge

Clifton suspension bridge

Warwick town centre

NWTRA

Potential issue with SRBs

Why replace all of product?

Testing

Problems with 89 dia posts

In vulnerable locations

Passive options costly

Maintenance costs are high

Steel post is not biker friendly

Flexipost

Flexipost – h1.8m x w1.0m

New hoop bollard

Idea?

Worlds first passively safe roadside cabinet

Why?

Special cassette and pins

Disconnection plugs

100 kph test

Passive cabinet

No crash barrier – saving £20k per site

Tested to EN12767 100NE3

Quick replacement as no ground works required

Orion retention sockets

Reduce replacement/install

Bollards to signal poles

Any diameter and depth

Lattix sign post Large lighting columns

FINAL THOUGHT

PASSIVE CABINET

FLEXIPOST

FLEXIPOLE

CONCLUSION

THIS SITE WOULD HAVE STILL BEEN MARKED

BIKER FRIENDLY

QUICKER REPLACMENT IF NEEDED

Let Ritherdon work with you to provide better solutions

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