Smart Motorways

Idiotic madness. What is the rational behind such a daft notion.?

The most ridiculous and highly dangerous of " inventions ".

Good post Jennifer and I agree, we are just talking about this now at home, as there is a news item about two men being killed because of a lack of hard shoulder.It was a terrible idea, just awful and should be overturned as soon as possible.Safety lanes are there for a reason!

I can’t imagine why anyone ever thought they were a good idea.

Our teenage granddaughter had a terrible experience on one of these. She was driving alone and she had a tyre blowout. There was smoke coming from her car and she panicked.
She managed to get through to her parents who told her to try to get to the inside lane and get out of the car.
She managed to do this and got onto the bank where she stood terrified and shivering with traffic zooming past until help arrived.
Those motorways are dangerous.

I hate ‘smart’ motorways. I am staggered it was ever thought that it would be a good idea to turn much needed hard shoulders into live lanes.

Although there are small lay-bys, cars don’t always conveniently break down near one, and if someone manages to get the car going again, the lay-bys are far too short to enable drivers to build up sufficient speed to rejoin fast moving traffic.

Then there’s the problem of how do emergency services get to a stranded vehicle?

Surely it’s only a matter of time before they are deemed unsafe.