Stop development of ‘smart motorways’ and remove existing ones.

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Following coroner calls for reviews to smart motorways, we, the people, call upon the government to immediately halt development of any new smart motorways and prevent expansion of existing smart motorways. We also that that all existing smart motorways be reviewed independently and removed.

Smart motorways have been the cause of a number of fatal incidents that could have been prevented if the hard shoulder still existed. A delay following an incident or breakdown results in late application of signage causing danger as other vehicles approach.

The lack of hard shoulder also impairs the ability of emergency services responding.

Smart motorways are convenient and cheap form of motorway expansion that should never have been considered. It is money saving at the cost of lives.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

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Timeline

21 Jan 2021	Petition opened for signatures
27 Jan 2021	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 27 Jan 2021

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