Petition to ban smart motorways

ETS:

toonsy:
My view is I’m against banning them.

If we’re going to ban them we should also then ban mile upon mile of dual carriageway roads that are also 70mph, don’t have a hard shoulder nor have refuge areas and are often less monitored with less gantry information. Think large swathes of the A1 or A14 as examples among may others.

Also are we talking “all lane running” or actual “smart motorways” because theres a difference which often gets forgotten.

What I’m in favour of is improving technology/infrastructure to reduce risks and increase awareness of issues/reduce speed of response.

  • 1 and to add I don’t think it’s the general public’s job/competency to determine what kind of roads are good/bad. There are enough people who’ve dedicated their lives to understanding/learning to design and build/monitor and analyze these things, maybe let them worry about it?

There are lots of real experts around, there were real road engineers, road safety experts, involved in trials of “smart motorways”.
Then a politican gets to decide what is/isn`t built…
But that is democracy for you.