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M42 Jct 3a - Jct 7 Active Traffic Management
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Key facts
- This section of motorway is 17km long
- Well over 120,000 vehicles use it every day
- For Active Traffic Management we have installed 54 new gantries
- These gantries support 268 lane specific signals and 63 driver information panels
- There are 39 new emergency refuge areas
- And 22km of safety fencing
- 192 new fixed CCTV have been installed to enable our Regional Control Centre to carefully monitor the scheme
- New lighting is supported on 1,004 new lighting columns
- And there is 525km of different types of cabling
Contractor Permit to Access System
If you require access to the M42 between junction 3A and 7, in order to carry out any planned maintenance or emergency works, you must be a recognised Highways Agency contractor and you must adhere to our Permit to Access System.
This system has been put in place to protect the travelling public and the workforce of recognised contractors.
The hard shoulder is being used as an extra lane available to traffic during busy periods or in the event of an incident. This may happen at any time of the day and therefore you must not stop on the hard shoulder AT ANY TIME, unless a valid permit is held and access has been authorised.
