At last - MPs agree all-lane running is dangerous!

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The Transport Select Committee has agreed something we've been saying on PH all along; that all-lane running on motorways is dangerous and should be scrapped:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36664116

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chasingracecars said:

I hate all lane running on B roads!! Driving that close to the edge scares me!!!

This is being done because half (I recon) drivers on British roads can't drive and wouldn't pass a test. I think these systems work. They are only dangerous because of the idiots that can't drive.

How many severe accidents have there been on managed motorways vs the three lanes with congestion?

Oh yes I get it now, empty hard shoulders can run police down to escort the PM's to tea and cakes at Parliament!

Hard shoulders are where vehicles seek refuge if they breakdown. There have been well reported incidents where drivers have not obeyed 'lane closed' signs and run into stationary vehicles on stretches of all-lane running, most notably the one in which three men were killed by a coach near Toddington services on the M1.