@RejoinP Should just ignore the war in Ukraine? The failure of the Tories and Labour governments? The ludicrous net zero policies, taxing farmers? The list goes on.
@JeremyVineOn5@nelufar calling people who vote for Reform a protest vote is absolutely clueless and she’ll be in for a huge shock in the next election 😏
@JonA_2112@JeremyVineOn5 When an incident occurs causing all lanes to stop. The ❌ doesn’t work because the traffic is backed right up at the moment of the incident blocking all lanes. This is when it is important to have a hard shoulder to use to bypass the traffic.
@JonA_2112@JeremyVineOn5 I didn’t say they didn’t?
The first attending emergency services will never be initially looking for reverse flow access to incidents, they will be travelling to the incident with the correct flow of traffic. They are usually the most important for saving people’s lives.
@standingtraffic@JeremyVineOn5 Yes there are these options but when time is critical and you are sat completely still because traffic is blocking all lanes, with little to no option for traffic to move across, it’s not good. Having that hard shoulder could be vital.
@hines_stephen@JeremyVineOn5 It’s not easy access, what do you think happens the moment an incident happens blocking all lanes? The traffic is instantly backed up across all lanes. I have been to lots of incidents on smart motorways and they often make it much harder to get to the incident.
@JeremyVineOn5 I work as a firefighter, one huge issue with smart motorways is that emergency services can’t get to incidents on the motorway in a timely manner because there is no hard shoulder to use to bypass all the traffic caused.