I thought the idea of a smart motorway was to shut lane 1 so it can be used as a hard shoulder for emergency vehicles. Or is it not smart, yet?
So how are they supposed to shut a lane when when its full of parked up traffic.
Well, a little man in an office full of moitors sees the incident, puts a Red Cross on the matrix sign on lane 1 BEFORE the traffic piles back. The smart bit being said spod in office. Hence the flaw in the plan. Or, it's isn't actually a smart motor way yet, so not monitored in such a manor.
Is it a "smart motorway" on that section?
They reckon an incident (they're not accidents or crash's now are they?) on the M6 at peak time will cause the traffic to back up at the rate of a mile a minute. Mind you, the M6 is mostly stationary around J10 anyway.
If you watch the constant row of cars going up the hard shoulder (sorry Lane 0) of the M42 with the red X above it you do wonder if those drivers should just simply be shot (I bet they wouldn't try driving in an X lane on the Aston Expressway which clearly indicates they do know what a red X means), or the other trick is to go racing past everyone when they open up Lane 0 (See I'm getting the hang of it) for exit at the next junction and then with 10cm to go before getting off at the junction they then shove there way back on to Lane 1..... I wonder how many would need to be shot before the current breed of 'superior' drivers started acting with slightly more intelligence...
Not many I wouldn't have thought, ......about 95% should do the trick.
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Topic: The M25 and its lack of Hard Shoulders VS Emergency Services. (Read 3350 times)