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Smart Motorways - Unsafe?
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BBC Panorama last night, and reported this morning in many papers (here is but one - https:/ /www.th eguardi an.com/ politic s/2020/ jan/27/ highway s-engla nds-sma rt-moto rways-p olicy-k illed-d rivers- exminis ter )
looks like the minister signed off on the evidence of a trial, and Highways England then went off and implemented the roll-out on the cheap with emergency laybys 3 times further apart than the trial, and (apart from 6% of the total) without the vehicle detection radar the system was meant to come with. Panorama showed a collection of video-ed near-misses which were of the most hair raising!
With road building now being something of an environmental anathema "smart" motorways was possibly the only option available in the fight against congestion. with 300 miles more currently being converted, what would be the sensible thing to do now - cancel HS2 and use the budget to do a proper job this time?
looks like the minister signed off on the evidence of a trial, and Highways England then went off and implemented the roll-out on the cheap with emergency laybys 3 times further apart than the trial, and (apart from 6% of the total) without the vehicle detection radar the system was meant to come with. Panorama showed a collection of video-ed near-misses which were of the most hair raising!
With road building now being something of an environmental anathema "smart" motorways was possibly the only option available in the fight against congestion. with 300 miles more currently being converted, what would be the sensible thing to do now - cancel HS2 and use the budget to do a proper job this time?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.In the fight against congestion one needs a shrinking population, and proper planning to put residential areas of all sorts near enough to the commercial employment areas that folk can walk in to work. Otherwise one is trying for sticking plaster temporary work-arounds of the consequences rather than tackling the root causes.
The original idea was probably sensible. However, once again, the implementation leaves a lot to be desired.
The'safety verges' are too small and too far apart; the number, placement and real-time up-dating of the warning gantries is insufficient; the cctv system does not yet cover the whole of the Smart Motorway system leading to dangerous blind-spots....
The'safety verges' are too small and too far apart; the number, placement and real-time up-dating of the warning gantries is insufficient; the cctv system does not yet cover the whole of the Smart Motorway system leading to dangerous blind-spots....
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