“It explained that the POPE are “complicated” and that it is in the public interest “that the communication of the results is led by the DfT”.
DfT working out how to spin bad news on smart motorway safety
Update: National Highways has told me that the DfT is sitting on a total of 14 reports. Of these, nine are five years after and five are one year after.
National Highways has said it will publish the reports on smart motorway performance that the Department for Transport (DfT) has been suppressing for nearly three years once ministers have decided how to spin the “complicated” data.
As I have reported, ministers called in the Post Opening Performance Evaluation (POPE) reports, at least nine of which were due to be completed by National Highways in 2022, and have not allowed the government-owned company so publish them, supposedly while it carries out “assurance”.
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