Mr Nick Harris
CEO NATIONAL HIGHWAYS
National Traffic Operations Centre
3 Ridgeway Quinton Business Park
BIRMINGHAM B32 1AF April 20th 2023
NO ALL LANE RUNNING SMART MOTORWAYS
Dear Mr Harris
For many years National Highways and Highways England have persisted in claiming All Lane Running Smart Motorways are as safe, or safer, than motorways with hard shoulders.
The recent announcement that no more smart motorways will be built because, to quote the Prime Minister, ‘Smart Motorways are unpopular because they are unsafe’ is welcome news.
I would suggest in view of the government’s decision your position as CEO of National Highways is untenable and you, and those directly responsible for the ALR policy which has cost so many lives, should resign.
If the schemes, currently under construction, are completed and opened without hard shoulders National Highways will be liable for deaths and life changing injuries because the company will have KNOWINGLY constructed UNSAFE roads.
Yours sincerely
Mike Rawson
(Retired Metropolitan Police Traffic Sergeant)
www.smartmotorwayskill.co.uk