Submitted on Friday 6th March 2020
Rejected on Thursday 12th March 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Stop downgrading motorways. Its not smart its dangerous. Keep the Hard Shoulder.
Safety is more important than saving 10 minutes on a journey. Many motorists have broken down on motorways and have needed the hard shoulder - including me. I will share with you my own experience of this as an example. I was driving on the motorway alone and I felt the car slowing down.
I tried to accelerate nothing happened. All I had was the momentum to get onto the hard shoulder then had to walk to the emergency phone box to call for help. If this had been a smart motorway would there have been enough momentum to get to a refuge bay or would I have been stranded on live motorway? Motorists need the hard shoulder for emergencies without them its like a deathtrap for those who break down refuge bays are not enough. Better to be late stuck in traffic than putting lives at risk.
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