Smart Motorways

Yes you are right Teacheranne
There really is no safe option on these awful roads is there?

I usually avoid petitions on these threads but I will have a look at that one Chestnut

The answer seems to be to now add a hard shoulder to all of them!

Stupid, expensive and dangerous thinkgs!

Cost Ohmother Cost!

The reason this was done in the beginning was clearly speed and cost. They will revert to hard shoulders in the end anyway, with the extra expense and time incurred. Like so many ill thought out schemes.

Agreed greeneyedgirl.

I think in the limited way they were originally planned they were OK. Dealing with rush hour queues and the bottlenecks that ensue in certain restricted areas at restricted times - traffic using them was slow moving, and when the rush hour was over they were went back to being hard shoulders.

But because something works in limited circumstances does not mean it works when everything is larged up.

I`m about to sign Chestnut and thank you for the thunbs up.

They are dreadful and I was quite surprised the M1 had decided to go mostly (?) smart. There are accidents all the time because of it