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Originally Posted by Halcyon
I've always found these to be dangerous. One minute its an extra lane and then the next its closed again. Miss it and you could plough into a broken down car.
This will annoy those that want to save the envionment and all that but the truth is there are ten times more cars on the roads these days and for some roads, such as the M25 we should really have an extra few lanes.
Look at how many they have in the U.S. That seems to work.
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That's a good point. Maybe some of these accidents where cars are ploughing into broken down cars is being caused by drivers getting confused as to whether the stretch is a hard shoulder or has been designated as an extra lane.
If a hard shoulder was thought to be necessary when there were much less cars on the road, it doesn't make sense that they are no longer needed.