New refuge areas on smart motorways

[grumpy52]

New orange colour refuge areas are to be built on most smart motorways it has been announced.
Are these the refuge areas that should have been built in the original specification for the motorways ?
Despite what everyone else says about smart motorways the highways people maintain that smart motorways are safer than those with a hard shoulder.
It's also never mentioned how many breakdown/recovery operatives are injured or killed at the side of the road.
Having been on the wrong end of a medical incident on a smart section of the M25 and actually being in a refuge area the amount of vehicles and people sent to assist and the closure of two of four lanes gives a clue to how dangerous the people working on motorways think it is .
I had a fast response paramedic, a crewed ambulance, a police patrol car , a traffic officer car , a fire engine, a highways agency fend off/ incident truck .

[grumpy52]

With modern surveillance software one would think that a warning could be programmed into the camera system to warn the control room of something out of the ordinary.
Oh silly me that would require our government to invest in a computer system that actually works.

[grumpy52]

Government computer technology?
If it works it will be the first government system that does within 3 years of installation.