Scrap smart motorways and bring back the safety of the hard shoulder.

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Popularity

This petition has 1,179 signatures in total, with signatories from 447 constituencies. That makes it the 7,300th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 43% (very low) and a Local Issue Rating of 38% (very high).

Signatures by Constituency

• 18 - Folkestone and Hythe
• 12 - Rossendale and Darwen
• 11 - Altrincham and Sale West
• 9 - Daventry
• 9 - Amber Valley
• 9 - Stevenage
• 8 - North West Hampshire
• 8 - Beaconsfield
• 8 - Basingstoke
• 8 - Dover
• 7 - Hertsmere
• 7 - South Derbyshire
• 7 - New Forest East
• 7 - Ashford
• 7 - Faversham and Mid Kent
• 7 - Maidstone and The Weald
• 7 - Wythenshawe and Sale East
• 7 - Tonbridge and Malling
• 7 - Rother Valley
• 6 - Hendon
• 6 - Eastleigh
• 6 - Bracknell
• 6 - Saffron Walden
• 6 - Sefton Central
• 6 - Wokingham
• 6 - Wentworth and Dearne
• 6 - Hemel Hempstead
• 6 - Sheffield, Heeley
• 6 - Chorley
• 6 - South West Hertfordshire
• 6 - Castle Point
• 6 - Fareham
• 6 - Wakefield
• 6 - South Northamptonshire
• 6 - Gosport
• 6 - Shipley
• 6 - Thurrock
• 6 - Penrith and The Border
• 6 - Liverpool, West Derby
• 6 - Hyndburn
• 6 - Newton Abbot
• 6 - Penistone and Stocksbridge
• 6 - Milton Keynes North
• 6 - East Surrey
• 5 - Mid Bedfordshire
• 5 - Chippenham
• 5 - Northampton South
• 5 - Uxbridge and South Ruislip
• 5 - Bassetlaw
• 5 - Carlisle
• 5 - Erewash
• 5 - Spelthorne
• 5 - Charnwood
• 5 - Chatham and Aylesford
• 5 - Fylde
• 5 - Windsor
• 5 - North East Bedfordshire
• 5 - Romsey and Southampton North
• 5 - West Bromwich West
• 5 - North East Derbyshire
• 5 - Doncaster North
• 5 - Stone
• 5 - Peterborough
• 5 - Rugby
• 5 - St Albans
• 4 - Tatton
• 4 - Mid Norfolk
• 4 - Derby North
• 4 - Stockport
• 4 - Scarborough and Whitby
• 4 - Milton Keynes South
• 4 - St Helens North
• 4 - Harrow East
• 4 - Eddisbury
• 4 - North West Leicestershire
• 4 - Isle of Wight
• 4 - Hastings and Rye
• 4 - Rochester and Strood
• 4 - Harborough
• 4 - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
• 4 - Reading West
• 4 - Sheffield, Hallam
• 4 - Lewes
• 4 - Skipton and Ripon
• 4 - Slough
• 4 - Somerton and Frome
• 4 - South Leicestershire
• 4 - Old Bexley and Sidcup
• 4 - Luton South
• 4 - Northampton North
• 4 - South Thanet
• 4 - Hitchin and Harpenden
• 4 - Croydon South
• 4 - Chesterfield
• 4 - Bedford
• 4 - Batley and Spen
• 4 - Bolton South East
• 4 - Bournemouth East
• 4 - Aldershot
• 4 - Wantage
• 4 - West Bromwich East
• 4 - Bury St Edmunds
• 4 - Bosworth
• 4 - Bridgwater and West Somerset
• 4 - Wycombe
• 4 - Wells
• 4 - Montgomeryshire
• 4 - Surrey Heath
• 3 - Runnymede and Weybridge
• 3 - Bolsover
• 3 - Horsham
• 3 - Blackpool North and Cleveleys
• 3 - Wolverhampton North East
• 3 - Rutland and Melton
• 3 - Heywood and Middleton
• 3 - Sheffield Central
• 3 - West Dorset
• 3 - West Lancashire
• 3 - Bradford South
• 3 - Salford and Eccles
• 3 - Hemsworth
• 3 - Bristol North West
• 3 - Worsley and Eccles South
• 3 - Keighley
• 3 - Romford
• 3 - Makerfield
• 3 - Motherwell and Wishaw
• 3 - North West Durham
• 3 - Banbury
• 3 - Mid Sussex
• 3 - Clwyd South
• 3 - Ashfield
• 3 - Newbury
• 3 - North East Hampshire
• 3 - Newcastle-under-Lyme
• 3 - Bath
• 3 - Maidenhead
• 3 - Kingston upon Hull East
• 3 - Ribble Valley
• 3 - Portsmouth South
• 3 - Portsmouth North
• 3 - Leicester East
• 3 - Banff and Buchan
• 3 - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
• 3 - Lincoln
• 3 - Oldham East and Saddleworth
• 3 - Louth and Horncastle
• 3 - North Devon
• 3 - Southampton, Test
• 3 - Watford
• 3 - Coventry South
• 3 - Finchley and Golders Green
• 3 - Bury North
• 3 - Don Valley
• 3 - Erith and Thamesmead
• 3 - Carshalton and Wallington
• 3 - Cheadle
• 3 - Tiverton and Honiton
• 3 - Elmet and Rothwell
• 3 - Stalybridge and Hyde
• 3 - St Helens South and Whiston
• 3 - Congleton
• 3 - Ealing North
• 3 - Wealden
• 3 - Sleaford and North Hykeham
• 3 - Stoke-on-Trent South
• 3 - Gravesham
• 3 - Dartford
• 3 - Gillingham and Rainham
• 3 - Crawley
• 3 - Weaver Vale
• 3 - Shrewsbury and Atcham
• 3 - Halesowen and Rowley Regis
• 3 - Garston and Halewood
• 3 - Bromsgrove
• 3 - Gateshead
• 2 - Stretford and Urmston
• 2 - The Cotswolds
• 2 - Thirsk and Malton
• 2 - Lanark and Hamilton East
• 2 - North Wiltshire
• 2 - Kilmarnock and Loudoun
• 2 - North East Hertfordshire
• 2 - Delyn
• 2 - North Herefordshire
• 2 - North Durham
• 2 - Stoke-on-Trent Central
• 2 - North Shropshire
• 2 - North Swindon
• 2 - Torfaen
• 2 - Islwyn
• 2 - North Tyneside
• 2 - Stoke-on-Trent North
• 2 - Tamworth
• 2 - North Warwickshire
• 2 - North West Cambridgeshire
• 2 - Glasgow South West
• 2 - Southend West
• 2 - South Ribble
• 2 - Tynemouth
• 2 - Workington
• 2 - Worcester
• 2 - Wansbeck
• 2 - Rotherham
• 2 - Warrington North
• 2 - Wirral West
• 2 - Wigan
• 2 - Solihull
• 2 - Welwyn Hatfield
• 2 - Westmorland and Lonsdale
• 2 - West Suffolk
• 2 - Twickenham
• 2 - South West Bedfordshire
• 2 - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
• 2 - Orpington
• 2 - Pendle
• 2 - Torbay
• 2 - Dumfries and Galloway
• 2 - Torridge and West Devon
• 2 - Southampton, Itchen
• 2 - York Central
• 2 - Poole
• 2 - South West Surrey
• 2 - Preston
• 2 - Pudsey
• 2 - Wyre and Preston North
• 2 - Sevenoaks
• 2 - Esher and Walton
• 2 - East Hampshire
• 2 - Hornchurch and Upminster
• 2 - Huntingdon
• 2 - Bradford West
• 2 - Kenilworth and Southam
• 2 - Brentford and Isleworth
• 2 - Beverley and Holderness
• 2 - Knowsley
• 2 - Dewsbury
• 2 - Derbyshire Dales
• 2 - Brighton, Kemptown
• 2 - Lancaster and Fleetwood
• 2 - Leeds Central
• 2 - Brighton, Pavilion
• 2 - Hexham
• 2 - Hertford and Stortford
• 2 - Blackley and Broughton
• 2 - Epsom and Ewell
• 2 - Bishop Auckland
• 2 - Grantham and Stamford
• 2 - Great Grimsby
• 2 - Enfield North
• 2 - Eltham
• 2 - Halifax
• 2 - Haltemprice and Howden
• 2 - Halton
• 2 - Ellesmere Port and Neston
• 2 - Havant
• 2 - Feltham and Heston
• 2 - Hazel Grove
• 2 - Leeds West
• 2 - Luton North
• 2 - Aldridge-Brownhills
• 2 - Arundel and South Downs
• 2 - Calder Valley
• 2 - Huddersfield
• 2 - Maldon
• 2 - Corby
• 2 - Newcastle upon Tyne East
• 2 - Aylesbury
• 2 - Mid Dorset and North Poole
• 2 - Barnsley Central
• 2 - Ashton-under-Lyne
• 2 - Mansfield
• 2 - Barnsley East
• 2 - Lichfield
• 2 - Liverpool, Riverside
• 2 - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
• 2 - Buckingham
• 2 - Crewe and Nantwich
• 1 - Bury South
• 1 - Wallasey
• 1 - Cambridge
• 1 - Wirral South
• 1 - Wimbledon
• 1 - Central Devon
• 1 - Broxbourne
• 1 - Bolton West
• 1 - Witney
• 1 - Woking
• 1 - Bootle
• 1 - Winchester
• 1 - Walsall North
• 1 - Wellingborough
• 1 - Bristol East
• 1 - Waveney
• 1 - Broxtowe
• 1 - Brigg and Goole
• 1 - Brentwood and Ongar
• 1 - Warwick and Leamington
• 1 - West Ham
• 1 - Bradford East
• 1 - West Worcestershire
• 1 - Bournemouth West
• 1 - Croydon Central
• 1 - Warrington South
• 1 - Burnley
• 1 - Boston and Skegness
• 1 - Burton
• 1 - Bristol South
• 1 - Stourbridge
• 1 - Ogmore
• 1 - Ross, Skye and Lochaber
• 1 - Perth and North Perthshire
• 1 - North Ayrshire and Arran
• 1 - Midlothian
• 1 - Livingston
• 1 - Linlithgow and East Falkirk
• 1 - Barrow and Furness
• 1 - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
• 1 - Basildon and Billericay
• 1 - Swansea West
• 1 - Aberavon
• 1 - Cardiff North
• 1 - Bridgend
• 1 - Brecon and Radnorshire
• 1 - Ceredigion
• 1 - Vale of Clwyd
• 1 - Clwyd West
• 1 - Aberconwy
• 1 - Arfon
• 1 - Vale of Glamorgan
• 1 - Newport East
• 1 - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
• 1 - Glasgow North West
• 1 - Birmingham, Perry Barr
• 1 - Yeovil
• 1 - Birmingham, Yardley
• 1 - Wyre Forest
• 1 - Blackburn
• 1 - Blaydon
• 1 - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
• 1 - Wolverhampton South West
• 1 - Wolverhampton South East
• 1 - Belfast East
• 1 - East Antrim
• 1 - Aberdeen South
• 1 - Glasgow Central
• 1 - Falkirk
• 1 - Edinburgh East
• 1 - Bexhill and Battle
• 1 - Bexleyheath and Crayford
• 1 - Central Ayrshire
• 1 - Birmingham, Erdington
• 1 - Birmingham, Ladywood
• 1 - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
• 1 - Bolton North East
• 1 - Totnes
• 1 - Sherwood
• 1 - Kettering
• 1 - Rochdale
• 1 - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
• 1 - Redcar
• 1 - Reading East
• 1 - Rayleigh and Wickford
• 1 - Putney
• 1 - Leeds North West
• 1 - Leicester West
• 1 - Islington South and Finsbury
• 1 - Ipswich
• 1 - Hampstead and Kilburn
• 1 - Harrow West
• 1 - Selby and Ainsty
• 1 - Sedgefield
• 1 - Hayes and Harlington
• 1 - Rushcliffe
• 1 - Holborn and St Pancras
• 1 - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
• 1 - Hove
• 1 - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
• 1 - Leigh
• 1 - Lewisham West and Penge
• 1 - North Thanet
• 1 - Mole Valley
• 1 - North Somerset
• 1 - Morley and Outwood
• 1 - New Forest West
• 1 - North East Somerset
• 1 - Newcastle upon Tyne Central
• 1 - North East Cambridgeshire
• 1 - North Cornwall
• 1 - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
• 1 - Meon Valley
• 1 - Oxford West and Abingdon
• 1 - Oldham West and Royton
• 1 - Loughborough
• 1 - Ludlow
• 1 - Nuneaton
• 1 - Nottingham North
• 1 - Manchester Central
• 1 - Manchester, Gorton
• 1 - Manchester, Withington
• 1 - North Dorset
• 1 - Guildford
• 1 - Chelsea and Fulham
• 1 - Sutton and Cheam
• 1 - Suffolk Coastal
• 1 - Stroud
• 1 - Liverpool, Walton
• 1 - Dagenham and Rainham
• 1 - Darlington
• 1 - Derby South
• 1 - Doncaster Central
• 1 - Dudley North
• 1 - Sutton Coldfield
• 1 - Coventry North West
• 1 - Cheltenham
• 1 - Chichester
• 1 - Clacton
• 1 - Cleethorpes
• 1 - Thornbury and Yate
• 1 - Copeland
• 1 - The Wrekin
• 1 - Taunton Deane
• 1 - Coventry North East
• 1 - Dudley South
• 1 - Staffordshire Moorlands
• 1 - St Ives
• 1 - Filton and Bradley Stoke
• 1 - South East Cornwall
• 1 - South Dorset
• 1 - Forest of Dean
• 1 - South Cambridgeshire
• 1 - South Basildon and East Thurrock
• 1 - Gainsborough
• 1 - Gedling
• 1 - Gloucester
• 1 - South Shields
• 1 - South Staffordshire
• 1 - Dulwich and West Norwood
• 1 - Ealing Central and Acton
• 1 - St Austell and Newquay
• 1 - Bristol West
• 1 - Southport
• 1 - East Worthing and Shoreham
• 1 - East Yorkshire
• 1 - Enfield, Southgate
• 1 - South Swindon
• 1 - Greenwich and Woolwich

This petition was submitted under the Parliamentary boundaries prior to June 2024, so the names may not be current constituency names

Signatures by Region

• 279 - South East
• 192 - North West
• 126 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 125 - East Midlands
• 121 - East of England
• 84 - West Midlands
• 80 - South West
• 71 - London
• 34 - Scotland
• 27 - North East
• 26 - Wales
• 2 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 1,174 - United Kingdom
• 2 - France
• 1 - Belgium
• 1 - Bulgaria
• 1 - United States