Submitted on Thursday 30th November 2017
Published on Tuesday 5th December 2017
Current status: Closed
Closed: Tuesday 5th June 2018
Signatures: 1,563
Scrap smart motorways and bring back permanent hard shoulders.
When your vehicle has issues on a motorway, you look for the relative safety of the hard shoulder. Smart motorways have removed that safety and are not smart enough to recognise lane 1 blockages quick enough. As a consequence, lives can be put at imminent risk!
As a HGV driver, I struggled to understand completely the concept of a smart motorway. If there was no hard shoulder to stop on, what happens next?
The answer, after pounding the smart tarmac, is ... it isn't smart enough. It isn't quick enough to put lane restrictions/closures in place. It is in fact....a death trap! Emergency services take longer to reach an incident due to no empty lane. It doesn't work!
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