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Recently The Hard Shoulder Scheme has been tested to help with congestion and cut journey times. The scheme basically is letting drivers drive in the hard shoulder. The hard shoulder scheme has been adopted as a quick and cheap alternative to road widening because the Highways Agency’s road building programme is appernetly more than £3 billion over budget.
Yet as a driver who regualary uses heavy conjested motorways I think this is the most stupid idea in the world. I think it is an idea that will cost lives, they claim our safety will not be compromised, but how can it not be?
If you break down you need the hard shoulder. If one car breaks down while the shoulder is being used as relief then you're worse off than you were before, as traffic tries to filter into the normal left lane. And we all know how shitty drivers are about you 'pushing in' even on designated filter lanes. And what about accidents.
Kevin Clinton, head of road safety at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, said: “Our reservations about using the hard shoulder are that in a major incident it may take emergency services longer to reach the scene as well as the practicalities of where drivers are able to stop their vehicles if they break down."
If all lanes are opened, including the hard shoulder, and a bad accident happens, the traffic stops completely so please could someone explain how emergency vehicles would reach the accident scene. With all lanes being used, cars would have literally no where to go. And if somebody was in a critical condition, surely the quicker the emergency services are there the better.
Overall I think it’s a stupid quick fix and hope that the scheme never actually is brought in.
Yet as a driver who regualary uses heavy conjested motorways I think this is the most stupid idea in the world. I think it is an idea that will cost lives, they claim our safety will not be compromised, but how can it not be?
If you break down you need the hard shoulder. If one car breaks down while the shoulder is being used as relief then you're worse off than you were before, as traffic tries to filter into the normal left lane. And we all know how shitty drivers are about you 'pushing in' even on designated filter lanes. And what about accidents.
Kevin Clinton, head of road safety at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, said: “Our reservations about using the hard shoulder are that in a major incident it may take emergency services longer to reach the scene as well as the practicalities of where drivers are able to stop their vehicles if they break down."
If all lanes are opened, including the hard shoulder, and a bad accident happens, the traffic stops completely so please could someone explain how emergency vehicles would reach the accident scene. With all lanes being used, cars would have literally no where to go. And if somebody was in a critical condition, surely the quicker the emergency services are there the better.
Overall I think it’s a stupid quick fix and hope that the scheme never actually is brought in.
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