Tuesday 12th February 2002

Emergency Crews for M-ways

Rapid response teams to clear up the debris on our motorways

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[DIGGA]

All sounds good, but in reality they're peeing in the wind with many stretches of motorway.

Places like the M6/M5 interchange, are so overloaded with traffic that any benefit will be hard to discern.

I was heading back to my office (Cannock) from Cheltenham a week last Friday, and I reached the M5 jct 1 within 30-45 mins (no speeding), and then took 2 hrs to cover the remaining 20 odd miles. This is just one of many anecdotal bits of evidence, and just once such area on a whole network of m'ways designed to cope with yesterdays traffic volume.

[PetrolTed]

They've got them on the M25 - I see them quite regularly.

Not sure it's going to clear the roads, but it does mean accidents get cleared up more quickly. Probably the end of plod carrying a broom in the boot though