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If it's called 'Smart' 'Eco' 'Energy Saving' 'Environmentally Friendly' 'Sustainable' it must be good....Right?
And, let's not forget, 'Money Raising'.
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I wouldn't use an electric car on a smart motorway... no way.
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And, let's not forget, 'Money Raising'.
Ah yes JB, now we're getting to the crux of the matter....
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31-01-2020, 11:57 AM
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I wouldn't use an electric car on a smart motorway... no way.
I wouldn't use an electric car anywhere Bread, except for delivering milk and driving round the golf course....
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I wouldn't use an electric car anywhere Bread, except for delivering milk and driving round the golf course....
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I think smart motorways are a very unsmart idea, and very dangerous too.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51851421

Smart motorways plan aims to boost safety

Under the plan, opening motorway hard shoulders for traffic in busy periods will be scrapped.

On those smart motorways where the hard shoulder has been removed entirely, there will be an increase in the number of places for vehicles to stop in an emergency.

Thirty-eight people have been killed on smart motorways in the last five years.

Announcing the plan to improve smart motorway safety, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said he had been "greatly concerned by a number of deaths on smart motorways, and moved by the accounts of families who've lost loved ones in these tragic incidents".

"The overall evidence shows that in most ways smart motorways are as safe or safer than conventional ones - but they are not in every way," he said.

A Freedom of Information (FoI) request sent by the BBC's Panorama to Highways England revealed that in one section of the M25, outside London, the number of near misses had risen 20-fold since the hard shoulder was removed in April 2014.
A welcome move but the plan does not go far enough ..... "smart" motorways will remain in operation .....

Smart motorways were introduced with the aim of increasing capacity and easing congestion by using the hard shoulder as an extra lane.

But they have been criticised by the government minister who originally approved the roll-out in 2010.

Speaking to Panorama in January, Sir Mike Penning, who is no longer a minister, said he had been misled about the risks of taking away the hard shoulder.

The Conservative MP said he had agreed to the expansion in 2010 after a successful pilot on the M42 near Birmingham.

The pilot worked well because there were safe stopping points for motorists, called emergency safety refuges, on average every 600 metres.

But when the scheme was expanded across the country, the safety refuges were placed further apart - on some sections, they are 2.5 miles apart.

"They are endangering people's lives," said Sir Mike. "There are people that are being killed and seriously injured on these roads, and it should never have happened."
 
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