The One Show yesterday, showing Smart Motorways in a more realistic light.

Hopefully this link will open at the correct point, but if not its 7 minutes 56 seconds in.

Yet again some errors in a media piece, control room do not respond in 20 seconds, an alarm may beep in that time, but operator are busy and can’t respond in that time. Also the “pause” is all but a lie. National Highways just declared most projects (even those just in design stage) as substantially complete and gave themselves permission to carry on with them.