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- Smart motorways were a tragic misjudgment [subscription]If we’d listened to commonsense voices instead of technocratic blather, life-saving hard shoulders would still be in place
- Smart motorway plan for night-only hard shoulders [subscription]Ministers are considering turning the inside lane of smart motorways into a hard shoulder at night in an effort to reduce the risk of collisions.
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