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It looks like so-called “smart” motorways, which lack hard shoulders, are here to stay. I have just had a response from the Department for Transport in answer to a query I made about these dice-with-death roads. Describing them as All Lane Running (ALR) motorways the 600-word reply defends them saying that “in most ways ALR motorways are as safe as, or safer than, conventional motorways, but not in every way”. It does not expand on this latter phrase. The Department gives links to various information about these death-trap roads – including the fact that there are some 12 motorways with “smart” stretches where there are no hard shoulders. In normal times I use parts of three of those motorways. To say I will be scared when I use those roads is an understatement. ....
Live lane fatality rates between moving and stopped vehicles were more than a third higher on all-lane running (ALR) smart motorways compared to conventional motorways in 2018. Highways England has consistently maintained that smart motorways are as safe as, or safer than, conventional motorways . However according to evidence submitted by the Department for Transport (DfT) to the Commons transport select committee inquiry into the roads, more deaths occurred on ALR motorways compared with conventional motorways during 2018 and 2019. For 2018, the fatality rate on ALR motorways was recorded at 0.19 per hundred million vehicle miles, compared with 0.14 fatalities per hundred million vehicle miles on conventional motorways. ....
Death rates on smart motorways with the hard shoulder permanently removed are higher than those on conventional motorways, official figures show. The revelation blows a hole in Transport Secretary Grant Shapps claims that smart motorways are as safe as, or safer than their conventional counterparts. It also undermines a claim last week by Highways England s acting chief executive Nick Harris that they are the safest roads in the country . Evidence submitted to the Commons transport committee, which is investigating smart motorways, shows that in 2018 live lane fatality rates were more than a third higher on All Lane Running (ALR) roads. ....
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