Is it smart enough?

The worst "not so smart "motorway in my opinion is the M3 at the M25 end , the junctions are so close together and is very busy, so vehicles are for ever having to keep moving into the "middle" lane which is the road we learnt to follow the knowledgeable HGVs drivers and stick to the middle lane

Travelled up from  Cornwall to near Northampton, via Redditch, yesterday.

Staying at a hotel near J15 of the M1, great for Amazon van spotters, and was curious about the seemingly 100s of vans, and huge numbers of heavy plant, plus road closures.

So had a look on Google to find the heavy plant is on anew rail interchange site that’s creating 5 million square feet of storage at a cost of £107 million.

The hundreds of vans are connected with the creation of an ALR-no me neither-which is an All Lanes Running, or Smart Motorway along 23 miles of the M1.

The cost? £373 million. For that money I would expect far better than Smart.

On smart? motorways it is the smart thing to do  you should try it ,so much less stressful when behind a Knight of the road driving HGV doing 60mph;than forever having to change lanes  

Lovey Licking Motor caravaner

Jour­ney reli­a­bil­ity has improved by 22%
Per­sonal injury acci­dents have been reduced by more than half

Does anyone have to hand the statistics for the same period of time for "dumb" motoways?  Hmm.  I thought not.  They are not saying.

I found this🤷🏻‍♂️-

Is there a link, Rocky?

Possibly Guardian Nav. Looks very like their type face.

Its a photograph of the M1 near us where two people died, prompted the inquiry. 

Edit, it is the Guardian. Here is link to whole article, read it all, and you see where the issues are, namely doing it on the cheap and not following approved distances for refuges and staffing of cameras. This is a very, very busy stretch of motorway, with lots of junctions.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/22/are-smart-motorways-safe

Thanks.  Not quite "Times New Roman" then.

I just punched in ‘smart motorways’ & that was one of the things that came up. From what I read it seemed smart M’s are good for traffic flow but do take lives. Anything that brings fast trucks closer to broken down & static vehicles can’t be good☹️