{"id":9493,"date":"2020-02-04T20:24:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T20:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=9493"},"modified":"2020-02-05T10:47:26","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T10:47:26","slug":"dft-asked-to-carry-out-smart-motorway-evidence-stocktake-at-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/dft-asked-to-carry-out-smart-motorway-evidence-stocktake-at-pace\/","title":{"rendered":"DfT asked to carry out smart motorway evidence stocktake at pace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Transport Secretary has asked for an \u201cevidence stocktake\u201d to gather the facts about smart motorways in response to recent safety fears.<\/p>\n<p>Since they were introduced in the UK there have been several deaths on smart motorways.<\/p>\n<p>A Highways England spokesperson said: \u201cAny death on our roads is one too many, and our deepest sympathies remain with the family and friends of those who lost their lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Transport Secretary has asked the Department for Transport to carry out, at pace, an evidence stocktake to gather the facts about smart motorway safety. We are committed to safety and are supporting the Department in its work on this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A smart motorway is a section of a motorway which uses traffic management to increase capacity and reduce congestion in busy areas. This includes using the hard shoulder as a running lane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Transport Secretary has asked for an \u201cevidence stocktake\u201d to gather the facts about smart motorways in response to recent safety fears. Since they were introduced in the UK there have been several deaths on smart motorways. A Highways England spokesperson said: \u201cAny death on our roads is one too many, and our deepest sympathies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":9494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}