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They could also be allowed to use motorways, but the other side on the hard shoulder.
Leave it out he clearly didn’t say that.
Pedestrians ain’t allowed on motorways and even if they were riding a bicycle along it they would still be sharing the hard shoulder with traffic running at motorway speeds either stopping on it or rejoining from it with no clearance for them.
Motorways were designed not to have pedestrians or cyclists on them why would anyone want to change that.