Blog post for RoadPeace
A couple of weeks after two police officers arrived at my door to tell me my husband would never come home again I started to pick up, through the fog in my brain, that I kept hearing the term smart motorway. What was a smart motorway? Why did everyone keep mentioning them? It was ‘just’ a terrible accident wasn’t it?
I sat down at my computer and googled the term, there was a lot of anger and hatred directed at them, a lot of people and organisations had been complaining about them for many, many years, but I’d never even heard the term before. There didn’t seem to be a centralised point for everyone to gather and discuss what could be done and nobody seemed to be telling the general public, and information was directed at industry and trades. There were a couple of Facebook pages but the only suggestion there was to write to my MP. I’m afraid I was a bit curt in the face of this suggestion and replied “my husband’s just been killed I want to do more than write a letter of complaint”.
Full blog post here – https://www.roadpeace.org/2020/02/18/claires-campaign-against-smart-motorways/?fbclid=IwAR0wYWNTVjfYDTnFlyR6oE_EsERwDUNpAAU8Bwsn51Td32vTSYf3KKXWooA
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