Vialis Traffic Management systems and lighting officially put into operation on the Ekkersrijt junction on the A50 motorway
The upgraded A2 ring road around Eindhoven, and part of this ring road is the Ekkersrijt junction, was officially opened on 8 June 2010.
This ring road is intended to solve traffic problems around the city of Eindhoven. In one of his last official outings, resigning Minister of Transport and Public Works, Camiel Eurlings, did the honour of officially opening the A2 ring road and the Ekkersrijt junction. Cranes dancing to the Bolero added lustre to the ceremony as Eurlings untied a large red ribbon symbolising the opening of the ring road.
Lanes for regional traffic and through traffic around Eindhoven are now separated and the network has been expanded to 4 dual carriageways. Seeing as through traffic is kept separate from traffic terminating in Eindhoven, or its direct vicinity, traffic flow is improved, there are fewer tailbacks, and the ring road is now a lot safer.
Road works on the ring road were completed within four years, i.e. one year early.
As a sub-contractor for the Mourik Besix consortium, Vialis was in charge of installing the Dynamic Traffic Management system at the Ekkersrijt junction (consisting of, amongst others, 22 roadside stations, 8 detector stations, 72 signs, 228 loops, 54 panels on the boarding, 10 kilometres of fibre optics cable) and supplying the lighting at the Ekkersrijt junction (including 383 light towers and 4 power supply cabinets with dim control).
The Eindhoven ring road is part of the overall project tackling the A2. The government is broadening this key North-South artery in the Dutch motorway network from its origin in Amsterdam, right down to Maastricht. The A2 will at some places, such as between Amsterdam and Utrecht, even have as many as ten lanes.