CycleChat Investigates - Smart Motorways

[Andy in Germany]

well apart from landscaping isn't that bank to protect folk from vehicles careering off the carriageway? I'd rather be up a bank than level with a carriageway/on it/in a ditch.

Bummer if you aren't mobile enough to climb up it though.

 

[Blue Hills]

Bummer if you aren't mobile enough to climb up it though.

I appreciate that, if you haven't got someone with you to help.
But if that is the case, that worst case scenario is surely not as bad as what the "smart motorway" imposes on everyone - ie stuck in the carriageway rather than by the side of it. Or on the banking if you are mobile.

 

[classic33]

Assuming the camera time & date is correct, normal traffic flow at this point.

No banking to climb

 

[Drago]

Well, the wise minds of CycleChat have spoken, and have almost unanimously declared smart motorways an abomination. I shall write to Boris Johnson forthwith, demanding he acquiesce to the will of the people...before someone demands a peoples vote on the subject.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Well, the wise minds of CycleChat have spoken, and have almost unanimously declared smart motorways an abomination. I shall write to Boris Johnson forthwith, demanding he acquiesce to the will of the people...before someone demands a peoples vote on the subject.

Not read the whole thread so maybe mentioned already - but hasn't an official enquiry been launched into their effectiveness as well as their safety?

I'm sure I read something on the BBC News site a year or so back that said that some evidence was suggesting that they were not overly effective re their primary purpose of improving traffic flow; the upshot being that a full appraisal will be made before earmarking more funds to continue the rollout.

 

[I like Skol]

Not read the whole thread so maybe mentioned already - but hasn't an official enquiry been launched into their effectiveness as well as their safety?

I'm sure I read something on the BBC News site a year or so back that said that some evidence was suggesting that they were not overly effective re their primary purpose of improving traffic flow; the upshot being that a full appraisal will be made before earmarking more funds to continue the rollout.

Excellent! Millions/billions of taxpayer's pounds and years of suffering by motorists due to the roadworks to implement the changes, and now they discover it might not be a good idea!!!!!
Once again, I'm sure nobody will lose their job over this.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Excellent! Millions/billions of taxpayer's pounds and years of suffering by motorists due to the roadworks to implement the changes, and now they discover it might not be a good idea!!!!!
Once again, I'm sure nobody will lose their job over this.

"Having an entire complex and carefully engineered infrastructure exclusively built for you at taxpayers expense and expanded to suit your needs" is a curious definition of suffering.

 

[DRM]

"Having an entire complex and carefully engineered infrastructure exclusively built for you at taxpayers expense and expanded to suit your needs" is a curious definition of suffering.

By suffering the road works for what seemed like an eternity, only for the idiots in charge to realise what a stupid idea smart motorways are, at god only knows what these death traps have cost the taxpayer, is what is being inferred

 

[Drago]

"Having an entire complex and carefully engineered infrastructure exclusively built for you at taxpayers expense and expanded to suit your needs" is a curious definition of suffering.

The 60,000 people a year that die of causes related to air pollution in the UK would, were there a suitable ouija board available to be able to gauge their opinion, likely agree strongly with Mr Skol.

 

[Ripple]

Drove on M20 today. Barriers have already been removed. It's so ...

... WIIIIIDE !

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51236375
38 killed on smart motorways in last five years

 

[SpokeyDokey]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51236375
38 killed on smart motorways in last five years

Was just reading about this myself - I can't stand the things. An ill thought out scheme at best and the cost has been horrific.

 

[Blue Hills]

And just look at the mega increase in near misses outlined in that story.

Did drago know this was coming?

 

[numbnuts]

Was just reading about this myself - I can't stand the things. An ill thought out scheme at best and the cost has been horrific.

I was too

 

[PeteXXX]

I saw this report. I wonder how it equates, deaths per mile, of Smart to Dumb motorway.