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Smart motorways and how the safety equipment often isn't working
BBC iPlayer - Panorama
Smart motorways and how the safety equipment often isn't working
‘Smart motorways kill!’ - Drivers slam cash cow schemes and call for total ban amid hard shoulder anger
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/smart-motorways-kill-drivers-slam-cash-cow-schemes-and-call-for-total-ban-amid-hard-shoulder-anger/ar-BB1lDxnd?ei=9
Smart motorways 'putting thousands of lives at risk' as campaigners demand urgent law changes
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/smart-motorways-putting-thousands-of-lives-at-risk-as-campaigners-demand-urgent-law-changes/ar-BB1gWmh4?cvid=2bccbff38fc541f6fcfc86927be4956d&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=34
'Smart' motorways aren't. Close to J16 on the M1 this afternoon, a truck was stopped with hazards flashing. in front of him a woman was getting out of a stationary car. No warnings and very scary. These smart lanes need to go back to being hard shoulders.
Heralded as a “win, win” situation in 2007 politicians are finally coming to their senses: ‘smart’ motorways were always a tragic mistake | Eli Abrams
#SmartMotorways
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/transport/smart-motorways-were-a-tragic-mistake/
❌ All new smart motorway projects scrapped over safety and cost concerns
Safety and cost fears see 14 projects abandonded as government acknowledges lack of public support for 'killer roads'
When drivers and the media say "#SmartMotorways", they almost always mean the ones with "all-lane running", or ALR, i.e. converting the hard shoulder into a running lane permanently to widen them on the cheap. Every "smart motorway" project that was planned or under construction featured ALR.
Sunak thinks by scrapping the hated ALR before the local elections he can claw back some votes.
Slight problem: the hated ALR was introduced in 2014… by the Tories. #UKPolitics
Populist daily mail claptrap from Sunak.
The real reason is because the Tories want to cut infrastructure projects.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-65288852
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65288852.amp
Credit where it’s due but it really should have happened years ago and yet another massive waste of taxpayers money plus needless loss of life…..