EDF Energy plans traffic management at new nuclear site - 03/08/2012
Energy supplier EDF has announced plans to create an automated traffic managements system following concerns over access to a proposed new site.
The company will spend £3 million on the initiative, which will control deliveries to its new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point in Somerset.
Campaigners and local residents have raised fears about the impact of construction traffic, claiming planned road improvements will not be enough.
The new automated system aims to reduce the effect of freight travelling to and from Europe's biggest building project, which will take ten years to complete.
Among the technology EDF plans to put in place are automatic number plate recognition cameras to track HGV movements and ensure only designated routes are used.
Hinkley Point C construction director, Nigel Cann said: "Our whole transport strategy is ... based on reducing the impact as much as possible by delivering as much material as possible by sea, investing in road improvements and carrying workers to and from site by bus."
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