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| ====== Smart motorways ====== | ====== Smart motorways ====== | ||
| + | [[https://www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/news-features/2/news-headlines/130990/smart-motorways-to-be-reviewed-as-transport-secretary-admits-%E2%80%98people-are-dying%E2%80%99-on-the-new-roads]] \\ | ||
| + | https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/advice/driving-advice/smart-motorways/ \\ | ||
| + | https://www.theaa.com/driving-advice/smart-motorways \\ | ||
| + | BBC How smart are Highways England's smart motorways? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-48783615\\ | ||
| + | 'Dangerous' smart motorway should be scrapped after another serious crash, police boss says | ||
| + | 16 February 2021 https://amp.lbc.co.uk/news/dangerous-smart-motorway-scrapped-serious-crash-police-boss/\\ | ||
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| + | https://smartmotorwayskill.co.uk/about-us/\\ | ||
| + | ===== All lane running schemes ===== | ||
| + | All lane running schemes permanently remove the hard shoulder and convert it into a running lane. | ||
| - | https://www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/news-features/2/news-headlines/130990/smart-motorways-to-be-reviewed-as-transport-secretary-admits-‘people-are-dying’-on-the-new-roads | + | On these types of motorway, lane one (formerly the hard shoulder) is only closed to traffic in the event of an incident. |
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| + | ===== Controlled motorway ===== | ||
| + | Controlled motorways have three or more lanes with variable speed limits, but retains a hard shoulder. The hard shoulder should only be used in a genuine emergency | ||
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| + | ===== Dynamic hard shoulder running schemes ===== | ||
| + | Dynamic hard shoulder running involves opening the hard shoulder as a running lane to traffic at busy periods to ease congestion. | ||
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| + | ====== Deaths ====== | ||
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| + | Dev Naran\\ | ||
| + | M6\\ | ||
| + | May 2018\\ | ||
| + | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-50188195 \\ | ||
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| + | Derek Jacobs, M1\\ | ||
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| + | unnamed woman, M1\\ | ||
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| + | Jason Mercer + Alexandru Murgeanu, M1 near Sheffield\\ | ||
| + | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-48580547\\ | ||
| + | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-49567968\\ | ||
| + | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50169527\\ | ||
| + | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7415399/Plans-roll-smart-motorways-dealt-blow-four-people-die-M1-10-months.html | ||
| + | https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/sister-mansfield-man-killed-m1-3278846\\ | ||
| + | https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/01/21/smart-motorways-could-reviewed-courts-widow-brings-judicial/ \\ | ||
| + | BBC News 38 killed on smart motorways in last five years - 26 January 2020 | ||
| + | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51236375 \\ | ||
| + | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jan/27/highways-englands-smart-motorways-policy-killed-drivers-exminister \\ | ||
| + | Smart motorway death? https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/mum-four-died-car-m60-19741943.amp? | ||
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