From a quick skeg into search I'm getting the information that the first smart motorway was introduced in 2006, remind me, who was in government at that time?JudgeTedd wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:47 amAnyone with half a brain could’ve predicted that Smart motorways would be a bad idea. You’d have thought the people who introduced them might have wondered why they hadn’t been done before?Zambo wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 9:36 am Put them in the fucking bin with all the other Smart shite.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68848418
Just think how many potholes that could have been filled in if they hadn't have wasted all that money down the shitter.
True that they were called 'managed' motorways and the hard shoulder was used at peak times not done away with altogether but it was the pre curser of what we have now.