The real DANGER of Smart Motorways

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There is a report out that Smart Motorways are not as affective as they were sold to us as. You you feel safe driving on them?
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@RichardVobes Год назад

PLEASE NOTE: The 'Telegram Me' replies are Fake Accounts and not me. Do not answer them.

@petew8388 Год назад

I guessed so Richard.....

@michaelgurd7477 Год назад

Thought so, but thank you for confirming that.

@HenrysAdventures Год назад

Those sort of fake accounts have been cropping up a lot lately. I always block and report them.

@tonidantonio9877 Год назад

Yep am getting a lot of them. Take care. I don’t do telegram…

@stephanieevans941 Год назад

I was perplexed and not sure what it meant!

@ianrichardson8990 Год назад

I've never understood how they were ever given the go-ahead. I was horrified when I first heard about them. Another of the insane decisions that have been made on our behalf. Talk about an accident, or thousands of accidents, waiting to happen! It's a foregone conclusion.

@thedave7760 Год назад

I can't believe they reviewed it and found the system to be unsafe but yet we still build more.

@mervwhitney7229 Год назад

It's a cheap way of making an extra lane albeit the lanes end up narrower than before and the risk to everyone increases.

@Boilingfrogg Год назад

Smart means a sudden pain in your eyes 👀 get it?

@Isisbridge Год назад

These days you need to be wary of "smart" anything.

@oldcrow4301 Год назад

@Isisbridge. I stay away now from anything “SMART” smart appears to be bad news now!

@paula7084 Год назад

The wisest advice I have heard all year .

@chrisdavey8941 Год назад

And especially stay away from all the "smart" asses that are about nowadays...

@SCOTSMAN. Год назад

I am thinking of getting the old Nokia out.

@LauchlanMac Год назад

Smart Motorways, total waste of money. I’ve come to understand that basically anything prefixed with ‘smart’ these days isn’t actually for my better good.

@stevesvids Год назад

True Story: I witnessed a lorry continue to travel on the inside lane despite passing 4 or 5 lots of overhead signs saying lane closed due to stranded vehicle. I continued in the second lane at reduced speed as the lorry passed me on the inside closed lane. Moments before striking the stranded vehicle the lorry swerved out into my lane. I had left a space... thank god. He clearly didn't see or didn't understand the signs. My opinion is like yours. Its an insane system, and I fear it greatly.

@RichardVobes Год назад

Blimey! Well done you for staying clear!

@stevesvids Год назад

@@RichardVobes I was with the family and we were all taking about the dangers when the first big red cross ❌ sign appeared overhead. At that point I began checking the rear view mirror to see if other drivers hadn't move over. Thats when I first noticed the lorry continuing up the closed lane, so I had ample time to think about keeping safe and keeping an escape route open for him. I've heard many a horror story of those not so lucky. We try to avoid using the smart motorway sections where possible. Thanks for the reply and for such a great channel too. Most enjoyable. 🙂🇬🇧👍👋

@joline2730 Год назад

We'll have to see what Ashley Neil says about this on his channel . . . if he hasn't already done so ... off to find out 🚶

@royboy1901 Год назад

Dare I say it ,foreign lorry driver ,oneofthem left hookers took my sister out on the A1 M ,pushed her into central barriers,she survived thank god

@stevewiles7132 Год назад

Don't the signs display a lit up red X to show lane closed?

@davidwalters313 Год назад

I fully agree Richard. Isn’t odd that anything that might be popular with the public such as scrapping smart motorways or abandoning HS2 this government completely ignores. I suspect there have been too many snouts in the trough and cant back out of these projects

@brondahawkins9264 Год назад

Totally agree... we actually do NOT have a voice. Vote Reform

@davidwalters313 Год назад

@@brondahawkins9264 yes indeed. I am thinking of becoming a member!

@davidwalters313 Год назад

@@colinu9209 absolutely. Scrapping these projects is a no brainer economically and politically but they survive. I wonder why …..?

@angelsone-five7912 Год назад

Next to keeping illegals in hotels the HS2 is the biggest waste of money ever - just so you can get to Brum an hour quicker!

@davidwalters313 Год назад

@@angelsone-five7912 absolutely!

@thetruth-loveitorhateit7999 Год назад

What we really need are "smart" people in these high ranking jobs. And that's never going to happen under jobs for the boys systems we have. Leave our motorways alone. And, while we're at it, the saying goes, if it ain't broke don't fix it. Or at least don't deliberately break it to bring in another corrupt agenda for the few.

@phoenixxavier9615 Год назад

I read somewhere that these 'smart motorways' are copied from Holland. There they (apparently) run without any problems. So the UK government copied them. In Holland, the traffic detectors are spaced at 250m. The UK government decided to save money so doubled the distance between the detectors. They then decided to save even more money by doubling the distance again, so basically, the one thing that would make the motorway smart has been omitted from the ones built in the UK & therefore we now have 'death motorways' that the government's PR team (mainstream media) call 'smart motorways'. It's not smart & it's not clever!

@davidbarlow350 Год назад

Smart phones Smart meters Smart cars Smart motorways Smart arses sums it all up.

@Isisbridge Год назад

Smart cities, smart brains, smart bug dispensers...

@MisAnnThorpe Год назад

Does anybody remember "smart" drugs? End result of all these; dumbed down people.

@Stringtrees Год назад

They scare the life out of me. I can't understand how this ever got approved. Already deaths have occurred. I remember when they started "improving" the M23. We had over two years of disruption and I said at the time, this will end in tears. I have seen so many near misses. The thought that a stationary vehicle will be unsighted for 20 seconds is so crazy that whoever came up with this plan is, in my opinion, criminally negligent. Then there is the cost involved, I wonder who could possibly have benefitted from all this?

@izzyplant8428 Год назад

Safety with a hardshoulder please.

@nicolasetherton2534 Год назад

I agree, having done 2 years doing breakdown recovery, I have seen how dangerous they are.Hard shoulders are hazardous enough but these things are insane.I actually experienced it myself, it was a bit hairy, the car I was driving as a trade plater lost it’s clutch hydraulic pedal to the floor on the M6 the engine cut out and wouldn’t restart. It was only luck that day that saved me.

@thisandthat849 Год назад

As an American, that system sounds insane! ;-) Here, it is illegal to stop on the highway. You will be charged by the police every time! It really sounds more like part of a greater tracking system to keep on top of citizens in your country. Very unfortunate. Hope the people rise up and vote it out!

@TheRuthdobson Год назад

Unfortunately, they won't. The masses in the UK just go along with anything there told🙄

@stephencope7178 Год назад

In the 1970's, someone came up with the idea of three lane roads, the idea being that the middle lane was for overtaking and from both directions. This gave it the nickname of the suicide lane (for obvious reasons.) The idea didn't last long, following several head on collisions!! 🤔

@pandoramoore3794 Год назад

@TheRuthdobson Quite they are too busy watching tik tok and love island and all the other crap that's subliminally being fed to kill off the brain cells, dumbing the future generations down, so they don't question what's going on in the real world 😳

@Boilingfrogg Год назад

Smart is a sudden pain in your eyes. Do you see it yet?

@stephencope7178 Год назад

@@Weirdlyoneoffs At least everyone is travelling in the same direction!

@curiousfurious5877 Год назад

Smart like smart meters, smart cities, smart streetlights...smart, for whom?

@vegiemantwo2505 Год назад

Do other countries go down this road(no pun intended) Saudi,Vietnam Chile. Lol would like to know.. just asking..

@charlestaylor8566 Год назад

Smart motorway ! Thought up by a thick as two short planks civil servant !

@ashjitsu Год назад

Thought up by the WEF for a push towards chinese style digital enslavement

@trevorharper7504 Год назад

Another common sense monologue Richard. Unfortunately, the powers that be don't do common sense!

@RichardVobes Год назад

Thank you very much

@vegiemantwo2505 Год назад

Its not common anymore....😁

@6brman224 Год назад

Having managed to survive until my hard earned retirement, I have no intention of being terminated on what is obviously a dangerous idea. It's almost as if there's a global move to reduce the population by any means possible....

@vegiemantwo2505 Год назад

Exept in Britain where they let you in regardless..😁

@kellysouter4381 Год назад

Yes they want about 5 billion only and there are currently 8 billion. So I've read.

@kellysouter4381 Год назад

@@vegiemantwo2505 those who've been crammed into your country may regret coming before too long.

@ceptimus Год назад

Smart motorways are good for the contracting companies that build them - they make loads of lovely money, funded by taxpayers. There has also been mile after mile of motorway coned off for years on end while the same contracting companies gradually replace all the Armco barriers along the central reservation, with those little concrete walls. The government keeps encouraging legal immigration to the country (also allowing illegal immigration to continue - though that is much smaller numbers), but it doesn't want to build any new roads/hospitals/schools, etc. to cater for the increased numbers living here. Twenty or more years ago, when people complained about congestion on the roads, I used to tell them, "Make the most of it while you can - congestion is only going to get worse and worse." They accused me of being negative at the time. Most likely they've all forgotten by now, but those few that do remember can now say, "He was right about that!"

@mk1aquatic739 Год назад

I live near a section of the M3 which is 'smart' motorway. Took something like 3 or 4 years of massively disrupting roadworks to complete and cost hundreds of millions of pounds. The end result is something that's worse and more dangerous than what was there before. I even emailed the highways agency to tell them this, but of course they think it's brilliant and amazing....There's been bad accidents due to broken down vehicles not being able to escape the carriageway, some of which caused deaths, because the planners didn't have the common sense to understand the problems that could occur despite them being blatantly obvious to anyone with a brain cell. The speed limits alter according to traffic volume, weather etc but it's very noticeable they are often out of touch with what's happening in real time. It's a staggeringly badly thought out and expensive project that should be scrapped.

@Jonny_The_Organism Год назад

Colas we're the contractors on that stretch.... I was a subcontractor doing the traffic management for a few months at the start and installed the contra flow system from J4a to J3 section of those works... I left that in Jan 2015 and went back to smaller A roads! ...But I started on "Smart Motorways on the M42 & M6/M6(Toll)...they were the better more thought out one's back in 2008/9.... of course later schemes had the cutbacks on safety...I found that out on the M3... I gave up on traffic management in June 2016! Now I tend to drive smaller roads which are far more interesting and scenic! 😁

@James-gf9jl Год назад

It doesn't matter how bad or dangerous it is, none of the talent-vacuums involved in the development and roll out will be fired. I suspect there will be a knighthood in it for some of them.

@Jonny_The_Organism Год назад

@@James-gf9jl some already have ish....some of the original companies involved have already gone bankrupt or sold out to the ones that have gone bankrupt....I was in there seeing the unprogression of those companies....glad I got out to be honest

@rockradio928 Год назад

I try not to think about it while on my frequent route along M25. Bad enough in good weather. Have they considered fog?

@r2trogly Год назад

It's totally insane. My wife and I broke down on one it was the most frightening thing I've experienced. I'd never see my wife praying over and over for help. As it happened a police van pulled up be hind us with lights flashing only to be nearly hit by a car just inches away from him.

@christopheremms2891 Год назад

Thankfully you were lucky. I use the M27 frequently. Breaking down before it was converted was scary enough but fortunately it only happened once to me. Now just driving on the "smart" motorway is pretty scary.

@timhicks2154 Год назад

They are lethal

@theangrygamer1008 Год назад

Smart motorways, phones, meters, TVs, watches, fridges , the list goes on. A classic case of money and the desire for control overruling the tried and tested epithet 'if it ain't broke don't fix it'

@bsimpson6204 Год назад

What we need is someone very important to have a bad accident, it just never seems to happen

@stephencope7178 Год назад

I guess the chauffeur driven cars that they use, do not break down as often as the peasants mobiles!! 🤔

@michaelgurd7477 Год назад

Our normal motorways would work a lot better if drivers actually showed some lane discipline and consideration for others.

@Phil144gbp Год назад

Yes common sense

@williamkennedy5492 Год назад

Like you i also appreciate the safety aspect of the hard shoulder, these politicians again put us all in danger by not investing , instead they use the hard shoulder as an extra road which PUTS LIVES AT RISK ! they are beyond contempt ! I can only hope they break down and experience the terror of that hard shoulder road !

@tonypacke6954 Год назад

The whole idea was to save money and improve traffic flow by using an extra lane. That doesn't work though, as if you use the motorways regularly, you will notice that very few vehicles apart from lorries use it. They are not "smart" or anything that has the word smart in front of it (smart meters!)

@lauriecooper8194 Год назад

I will not knowingly use a "smart" motorway. Absolute death traps and a mind blowingly stupid idea.

@livelifeliveponies9623 Год назад

As everything else these days, the powers that shouldn’t be are mixing up common sense with idiocy 😡

@johnwalkley6746 Год назад

Yes this nation is an odiocracy.

@jonfitz2278 Год назад

When ever the word smart is in the name you have problems

@fototyz Год назад

it's yet more insanity designed by people who have no idea how roads work................ :(

@cavendish009 Год назад

I agree - I am a great fan of COMMON SENSE !!!!! This quality seems to have been obliterated and humans now are not supposed to THINK which helps us DECIDE IN OUR INTEREST.

@kenhickford6581 Год назад

'Dumb'??? .....Downright lethal!

@obtuse1291 Год назад

Would you fly if they told you that 80% of flights made it ok but the other 20% were a bit touch and go, due to the low grade mechanical and electronic systems in place. Radar cover was a bit patchy so they knew where most of the planes were most of the time but they couldn't promise anything and sometimes planes could be brought in to land on the same runway on occasion at the same time due to air control only having a partial picture of what was going on? SMART MY ARSE.

@andyhobbs2812 Год назад

Smart also means Pain!!!

@IngramCars Год назад

It may be considered a 'smart' system, but not all motorists are smart with it. It seems to presume that motorists will take notice of the signs in good time, and keep to the speed limits. Weary, zoned out drivers lose awareness, and we all know most seems to ignore the rules of the road. You imagine driving with children in the back and you experience sudden power loss, or a blown tyre. You stop in the lane and not just have to get yourself out, but the children too. It's idiocy.

@geoffsmith6373 Год назад

"Smart" motorways are so obviously a bad idea, it's stunning they were ever thought of. No hard shoulder? You have to wonder what sort of people actually approve such dangerous ideas. It's surely so clear to anyone who has the capacity for intelligent thought that accidents will be caused by a lack of hard shoulder. Technology is nowhere close to ready for such a thing. Even if it was, having a red cross over a lane is hardly going to ensure the broken-down vehicle is safe! It's almost as ludicrous as the fairly new highway code rule of stopping to let pedestrians cross as you come off a roundabout. Are these people actually insane?

@TheRuthdobson Год назад

It's terrifying on the M1. I used last wk for the first time in years, I wondered why there were so many cameras and so slow. The weight of traffic was horrendous. The parts with no hard shoulder were scary 😳

@johnroper204 Год назад

I'm going to show my 73 year old Dad who's been a professional HGV lorry driver both here and in Europe this video to see what he says. I strongly believe he'll agree 👍

@johnroper204 Год назад

There is not a wiser person on this planet than a lorry driver. They have seen the lot. They have travelled,and truly seen it all.

@flybobbie1449 Год назад

@@johnroper204 Like the one that swerved across 3 lanes nearly side swiping me. Too busy trying to maintain speed joining M6 north at Aston Expressway. 2 lorries stopped nearside, one behind swerved out and so the one following did the same into my 3rd lane of 4. Lorries should stay lane 1 and 2 smart mode..

@LauchlanMac Год назад

So glad we don’t have any smart motorways in Scotland. Driving don’t pleasurable anymore in many places, especially the further south you go in UK. I hope the people of England can stop this madness

@turbostream7925 Год назад

I used to love driving but not anymore. Birmingham is getting like London for rubbish driving recently.

@vegiemantwo2505 Год назад

I dont think so..And im English..lol

@stevensarson482 Год назад

Not a remedy by any stretch, but why not have a drastically reduced speed limit for the inside lane. This would at least reduce risk a little and also recognize the inevitable queues that accumulate here at busy junctions. Still don’t like these motorway sections, but then driving in the UK stopped being fun/safe some time ago.

@rodpanhard Год назад

Everything prefixed with the word "smart" is intended to be your jailer / warden.

@MisAnnThorpe Год назад

CELL phones anybody?!

@dcarbs2979 Год назад

@@MisAnnThorpe Nope. I don't own one. Only had one for one year in the last 20. More hassle than benefit.

@annenewton5403 Год назад

It’s very scary

@DOCTORDROTT Год назад

Its a crazy unsafe system

@juliawigger9796 Год назад

Oh but it was an experts idea, and we must obey them, they know best. 🤪🙄

@vegiemantwo2505 Год назад

Whats an expert🤔

@aprildangelo7457 Год назад

We ran our own recovery/rescue/ RTA, operation for twenty years, even with hard shoulders were pot luck as most fatalities were on the hard shoulder, just one of the many incidents we attended one time was a 40ft trailer with wheel bearings shot, so had to repair on the side of the motorway, you always parked your recovery vehicle at full lock to the left and about 50 foot away from the breakdown, so your vehicle in theory takes the first hit before hitting the broken down vehicle, and from the broken down vehicle it was coned of with taller cones to the recovery vehicle and coned to the rear of the recovery vehicle with all the lights flashing, while working on the bearing hub my hubby needed a thread file, he walked up to the recovery vehicle to the near side locker for the tool, got the tool, started to walk to the broken down vehicle to be met with the cones flattened, smart motorways are as stupid as the idiots that thought it was a good idea.

@HenrysAdventures Год назад

I think Smart Motorways, are anything but smart. I wish we'd keep the traditional motorway with a hard shoulder which has always worked since Motorways began.

@foppo100 Год назад

These smart motorways are lethal.I haven't seen this type of traffic management anywhere in Europe.The crazies in the UK invented this system.

@vegiemantwo2505 Год назад

Because we are clever..WE ARE BRITISH..we invented the world. 😂

@TheVintageNews Год назад

i'd heard the diea had been abandonned now, just as they finish the M27, the've got to redo it all again now

@kevinrowlands6753 Год назад

They are far from smart just a penny pinching idea what ever you do if you stop get out of the vehicle and get as far back as you can

@steamsearcher Год назад

Our Neighbours sons who are on the road Mechanics have with others decided due to near misses to avoid the M4 from Reading into London. Now if we all go the old road they will have to do something about them!!! IDIOTS IN CHARDE!!!

@kevinoakes1171 Год назад

Well said. Never liked the idea myself, there’s NOTHING smart about them and nobody travels any faster on them. Stupid idea and potentially very dangerous.

@noelward8047 Год назад

I was driving in lane three on the M6. Engine 'coughed' and I knew something wasn't quiet correct ... fuel and temperature was OK. Manoeuvred through lane two into lane one. Engine cut out before I could make it onto the hard shoulder. I was stranded with vehicles undertaking me ! After a short while, which seemed like hours, a gap in traffic appeared and I was able to move onto the hard shoulder ... using the starter motor. A long time later the 'Traffic Wombles' arrived and the chap pushed me to the 'reservation' just around the corner ... later recovered by the RAC. (It was a coil pack failure).

@formicapple2 Год назад

Worked in technology since 1975. Smart motorways terrify me. I’m stationary in the 1st lane with and other passengers high up on the top of the high bank. Suddenly a lorry hits my car at 80 or 90 mph. The debris is going to hit us even though we are at the top of the bank. The rationale is that it gives us an additional lane for a fraction of the cost. That’s the only reason why they exist. COST.

@Cloudberry46 Год назад

The problem is we have too many un-''smart'' people running things in this country.

@3D_Printing Год назад

Smart is an Orwell 1984 word

@rogersimmons8788 Год назад

We will never learn, Richard. We have these lunatic ideas thrust upon us, often with cost cutting as the objective, by people who seem to have no forethought or indeed the slightest modicum of common sense.

@humourless682 Год назад

I find it hard to understand why so few are aware of the reason for "Smart" motorways? Other than the obvious one of taxpayer funding infrastructure to enable usage charges to be made, the purpose of the 4th lane is to enable autonomous electrically powered commercial vehicles to be introduced, which will run between a network of low carbon distribution hubs all over the UK. While we are all rushing around like headless chickens, and concerns are directed towards matters like the invaders, things like the smart motorways and LTNs, simply proceed with little or no comment, and there will be nothing we can do about them, as it's already too late.

@ramseybarber8312 Год назад

Hi The Highway,s Agency have now said that the time to recognize a broken down vehicle is NOT 20 seconds it is 42 seconds.The person who thought this up should be sacked , put the motoways back to as they were and we will have to put up with the congestion caused.

@matthewchapman6395 Год назад

I thought the whole idea of a motorway was access to a hard shoulder for safety due to the speeds involved. However, cost cutting always overrides safety when all is said and done.

@tw2210 Год назад

Hello Richard. Great video. Have you noticed the cats eyes are missing on many roads recently?

@RichardVobes Год назад

Yes, I have. Where have they gone?

@joline2730 Год назад

@@RichardVobes they probably think "Percy Shaws" as I call them (inventor) are a waste of money ... but they saved lives, including mine in one instance. It was a very foggy evening, visibility down to almost the tip of my bonnet, but Percy's could just be made out, wonderful ‼️

@noelward8047 Год назад

I recall driving a stretch of road where they were illuminated.

@jamesknightreading Год назад

How do the poor cats avoid being run over? :)

@vegiemantwo2505 Год назад

They have gone because the modern lorries ,with their heavy loads have gauged them out....

@782sirbrian Год назад

Not a fan, a crazy and dangerous system.

@maggiesamuels2937 Год назад

We often go down to Bournemouth for a couple days from London ,and couple years ago we had a tyre blow out and couldn't drive the car so we had to get out with all the cars and lorries racing past us it horrendous and my hubby had to phone the police so their could stop the traffic because we wasn't detected stop on that smart M3 motorway. We absolutely not for these smart (not smart motorways) 🙄 😡🤬

@Irvine70 Год назад

Good Evening Richard. I know a van driver that crashed into a lorry that did NOT have the lights on, on a so called smart motorway , bring back the dumb motorway any day!

@julie9528 Год назад

I travel on the M25/23 a lot. The ‘Smart’ recognition that a car has broken down does not react quick enough to put a X on the gantry. They are possibly OK in perfect visibility conditions, but even then you need to rely on the driver paying full attention. In the dark, rain, mist or last week snow they are dangerous. Perhaps in these conditions we should all travel in lane 2? I have had some disturbing moments!

@chrisblay Год назад

It’s a case of, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. Only they did and it kill’s people. Absolutely wrong and unforgivable. There’s no way that people designing these new motorways couldn’t see the potential danger.

@keithgilbert9240 Год назад

What happens when a disabled person breaks down in one of these "smart" motorways? It's hard enough for the person to get into & out of a car when on their driveway or carpark let alone the chaos of the motorway. I know of a number of disabled people who avoid "smart" motorways as they're scared of what could happen. Absolute madness.

@scottfw7169 Год назад

I'm a disabled person in the US and understand why disabled folks there would avoid driving the smart motorway. Our non-smart Interstate highways are stressful enough as is. And then out here in midwestern farmland there are the 2 lane rural highways which have no shoulder, none, zero, neither hard nor soft, as they wind through the rolling hills.

@carolb9549 Год назад

Commuting on the highway in Britain would be a nightmare. These so-called safety measures put into place are to make you NOT want to travel anywhere. You would be so focused on the things that would make your life suck, like road tolls, infringements from breaking down etc, the pleasure and convenience of owning your own car has disappeared and has turned out to be more trouble than its worth.

@Bob-us9di Год назад

There are three types of 'smart motorway' - the kind that Richard refers to is the latest type - 'all-lane running'. The other types still have a 'hard shoulder' - all are designed to reduce congestion by using variable speed limits to reduce bunching. The 'all-lane running' type has a moratorium for 5 years while safety concerns are being assessed. Personally I avoid motorways whenever possible - and always avoid the 'all-lane running type'.

@factorylad5071 Год назад

Just escaped death by a hairs breadth. A horse box trailer became detached from the van towing it so it was sat in the inside lane with no lights.

@michaelgurd7477 Год назад

The idea behind them is increased capacity for less £££ than building new lanes. Although increased capacity does not mean that in the long term that journey times will be decreased. Look up induced demand; think of LA with it's 14 lane highways/car parks.

@lmg7503 Год назад

The title"Smart Motorway" when it first began to be built, I felt excited. But very quickly over the months I began to feel alarmed. When realising the restriction as a driver I had if a breakdown or accident occurred which could involve many more to get into trouble at the same time. This design and it's eventual agreement to be implemented onto the roads of England. Must have been agreed by a committee of chimpanzees. For no sane intelligent person aware of road safety would have agreed to this design and it's insanity.

@joancampbell4130 Год назад

It wont matter soon because we are going to be limited to 15 min journeys.Oxford are already trialling it.

@christinebeames712 Год назад

Hi yes but most people haven’t cottoned on to what the end game is , and don’t really want to have to think about it , sheep ,

@vegiemantwo2505 Год назад

Yer 6 mins in taunton.2 hrs in York....15 mins in Norwich...fer f....cks sake.

@jayturner3397 Год назад

Ex Met class 1 not traffic but a cover car if needed, whole thing nonsensical, yes the hard shoulder is fraught with danger as are road works but No you need an escape route, akin to Hgv Run off lanes should breaks go on anticlines etc, first time I went over QE2 bridge Kent same thing unbelievable mate

@stephanieevans941 Год назад

It is utter insanity, Richard and the reason I no longer drive down to my beloved Sussex from the north west. I am terrified of possibly breaking down on a so-called smart motorway, particularly after I read an article in the Daily Mail, by an undercover reporter who worked in the control room and reported, to his own horror, the fact the essential software failed regularly on a daily basis, meaning accidents would happen and nobody would be aware of it. Seeing video footage of the most frightening "near misses" as well, convinced me these motorways are death traps, confirmed by the number of those unfortunate drivers who have been hit and killed, simp!y because their vehicles broke down and they had nowhere to go - a sitting target in other words. I cannot imagine anything worse, a nightmare scenario for any driver. This government was totally mad to sanction smart motorways, hard shoulders must be reinstated for everyone has a right to be safe on our country's roads.

@Satters Год назад

no way will I drive on a "smart" motorway, they are downright dangerous, i use the trunk (A) roads, i would rather be slow but safe

@pauld7827 Год назад

The motorist pays huge amounts into the governments coffers, but receives little in return. These 'smart' motorways are a death trap. It is necessary to legislate that any death caused by these systems should result in charges of corporate manslaughter against the government ministers and companies responsible.

@aviewoftown Год назад

Teacher Enoch Burke in jail for not calling student 'they'. Dublin Mountjoy Prison for months now and over Christmas.

@russellleggatt4269 Год назад

Not very smart at all really! Carnage waiting to happen! Imagine being on 2 wheels?!

@sallyhogston3060 Год назад

Smart motorways frighten me and try my best to avoid them whilst driving. Biggest mistake our government made regarding roads

@paulmessis1094 Год назад

I had an old mini and it used to break down a lot towards the end of me owning it. I know that had I had a problem on a smart motorway it would be fatal, given the size of the car.

@WiltshireMan Год назад

NO. I do not like the "Smart motorway". I think it's an absolutely crazy idea, but then the world does appear to be going a bit crazy at the moment too....!

@logothaironsides2942 Год назад

We hate them. They are supposed to keep the traffic flow more steady but they dont.

@turbostream7925 Год назад

They first tried it on the M42 a few years back. I remember them saying it was for peak time only as that stretch was slow in the rush hour and a max speed of 50mph. Now the M6 around Birmingham is all smart motorway and the M5 too. I am surrounded by them, no real alternative if I want to travel out of the area.

@hazelsanderson9200 Год назад

I agree - hard shoulders should remain hard shoulders. Glad I'm not a car owner these days.

@johnturner1073 Год назад

I'm getting there. My car has probably two or three years left, then that's it, no replacement. Would not get an electric one even if I could afford one!

@smudd71 Год назад

It’s not done for ur convenience x

@1aberbeeg Год назад

Crazy idea.

@junebrooks665 Год назад

they are the most idiotic idea ever thought of and totally dangerous tut tut

@jamesknightreading Год назад

I wouldn't mind so much ruining a tyre by driving to a refuge, if I had a spare to put on. But there is no spare! Just a can of gunge, that is certainly not going to repair a shredded tyre. :(

@markmacthree3168 Год назад

Anything they say is "smart" it's not it's the opposite 🎯💯

@maryberry6067 Год назад

I have always been a big fan of the good old horse back or horse and buggy. But if not that it would be nice if good enough could be left alone. In other words if it works don't fix it.

@billyy123 Год назад

Percentages mean nothing when a car is a mile away traveling at 60mph is only 60 seconds away . No one can get there to help you and give you cover in that time no matter what when all lanes are running percentage will be hi in acedents if percentages must be taken in to account.

@adriansmith6530 Год назад

Its the accountants and the holders of the government purse strings that introuduced Smart (Dumb) motorways...certainly not the Police or the various motoring organisations and pressure groups. Its widening on the cheap. People have and will die because of these unsafe roads. No more SMs should be built and existing ones should be widened properly to include a continuous hard shoulder

@waltermatthews1155 Год назад

These smart motorways are not designed for the people, they are designed for electrification, (driverless cars)

@user-rf9me7xm1w Год назад

Oh dear, oh dear, it’s about time the driving public made their feelings known about “electrification”. It seems everyone’s rolling over and just following the advice of the clueless positions.

@blowduke Год назад

Anything labelled smart ,is not .

@Chris-gs8kc Год назад

80% detection of a stopped vehicle ! You have to be kidding me. If that is so I'm surprised that more accidents haven't happened on "smart" motorways. That has to be down to luck.

@stevewiles7132 Год назад

I found when I was in Britain in 04 that there was little area to leave a road if I had to, even country roads.

@scousepie2 Год назад

We were driving west bound on near J10 this evening when the cameras on the other side flashed a driver and temporary blinded us.. we had black spots before our eyes.. its DANGEROUS. how can they get away with this.. !!!