Friday 5 November 2021

You've Still Got Blood On Your Hands...

In a damning report, they accuse transport chiefs and civil servants of pressing ahead with the roads despite ‘major concerns’. The officials are said to have underestimated the risk of removing hard shoulders.
Technology designed to save lives is still not in use despite a promise given in 2016 to the Commons transport committee, which wrote today’s report.
Lives would almost certainly have been saved had the technology been in place sooner,’ the MPs say. ‘The promised safety improvements were delivered neither efficiently nor effectively.
...because everyone else told you it was a bad idea before they were built. 

And despite belatedly raising a fuss, you're still content to sacrifice those lives, aren't you?
It stops short of calling for the hard shoulder to be reinstated, saying the reduction in road capacity this would cause could push more vehicles on to ‘less safe’ local roads, resulting in more deaths and pollution.

Would those 'less safe local roads' be where MPs tend to live, I wonder? 

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I bet things will be dealt with expeditiously if it was an MP killed aftrer breaking down on one of these motorways.
Penseivat

Andy said...

Penseivat, that depends on who the MP was.

JuliaM said...

"I bet things will be dealt with expeditiously if it was an MP killed aftrer breaking down on one of these motorways."

I've got a little list..!