Motorway service area for proposed motorway service areas. The NRA held a competition to determine an operator for the first round of service areas to be opened. Superstop, a consortium consisting of Petrogas (Applegreen) and Tedcastles Oil Products (TOP), won the contract. The first service area, Lusk services, opened on the M1 on 8 September 2010. Castlebellingham services (also on the M1) opened on 29 September 2010, with Enfield services on the M4 opening shortly after in late 2010. The fourth service area, Wicklow services station (J14, M11) opened on 29 May 2014. While other locations for service areas were planned by the
Karen L. Wooley Karen L. Wooley Professor Karen L. Wooley is an American polymer chemist. She is a Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University whose research focuses on developing novel polymers and nanostructured materials. Wooley received her B.Sc. in Chemistry from Oregon State University in 1988, and a Ph.D. in Polymer/Organic Chemistry in 1993 under the guidance of Jean Fréchet. Karen L. Wooley is an international leader in the design, synthesis, characterization and implementation of polymers and nanostructured organic materials. She has published "ca." 270 peer-reviewed articles in top-ranked scientific journals, holds several patents. For nine years, she has served as Director of