When Highway Operators Get It Wrong: The Life-Threatening Reality of Smart Motorway Signs 

Thanks for the watch and the mention! Really appreciate it! P.S Cool man cave! GDB

Yes, motorways are now far more dangerous!!! I drive on them early hours of the morning when hardly any traffic. Where/when ever possible I will not use the motorway during the day. Those signs are never updated, variable speed limits, caution queues when there's none same with non existent road works or workforce in the road, etc etc.....I love driving but now the anxiety it causes I'm always exhausted upon reaching my destination or returning home.....also traumatised from seeing regular horrendous accidents...

The biggest I've driven is 7.5T and even those are scary when car drivers don't realise just how hard it is to stop and pull across you.

I have to wonder why you seem to have ended up with such a bad implementation of this in the UK. We have virtually identical dynamic signage in the Netherlands, but to my knowledge they're not causing any issues there, and actually _have been_ safer because it allows them to close off lanes when accidents occur in the middle of the road (with plenty of advance warning signs). But to my knowledge we don't try to repurpose hard shoulders as driving lanes either... which is in and of itself a pretty bizarre idea to me.

Smart motorways are like our bike lanes, someone high up has seen it when on holiday i would imagine, thought it would be a great idea here, and bring it over half done without actually looking at the bigger picture, either that or as so many speed camera's popped up on the motor ways when these were brought in and with the amount of slow downs for no actual reason it was purely a money maker.

Good point mate 👍

25 years hgv driver! Smart motorways are lethal! You have a legal obligation to get upto speed and merge in!how....how do u get to 60mph from those breakdown areas?

You haven’t got a clue what you’re talking about. I work on the motorways, I work In traffic management and I drive the truck with the cones on, the whole point on the refuse area is if your broken down or for an emergency. If you can’t get out the refuse area you call national highways and they will put a big fat red x on the hard shoulder and most probably call the police or the wombles to assist. The reason people get hurt or die on smart motorways isn’t because of the way it functions it’s simply because people do not read the gantry’s. I’ve seen it, I see it first hand everyday. And you so called✌🏻professional truck drivers ✌🏻are the worst for it. As I said I drive the truck with the cones on, with the big flashing arrow that goes up 5m above the truck that tells you to move over to the next lane, the big cushion that folds down to take the impact of a vehicle hitting us, do you know what vehicles is mostly involved with crashing into the back of the trucks? HGVS, 99.99% is trucks because you ignore the signals and signs, so all this rubbish about smart motorways are dangerous is compete and utter garbage. It’s you drivers are to blame.