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Message: [QUOTE="TheSockPuppet, post: 10545416, member: 86884"] False equivalence. We've known for years that motorways are the safest roads because everything is going in the same direction at a similar speed. Most crashes take place on urban roads (low speed, high hazard), most fatalities take place on country lanes (high speed, bends and trees and stuff). Smart motorways make a safe thing less safe. Just because non-motorways are even more unsafe, does not mean that we should accept an increased risk for what is effectively an income generation tool for the government. You've also blamed the driver - what you need to remember is that a large proportion of drivers are fúcking dreadful - old biddies who don't know what's going on, díckhead boy racers, the unpredictable nervous wreck, the foreigner who doesn't have a licence - the roads need to be usable by all, even the worst drivers - if you make it too hard for Karen from Slough who can't see where she's going because she's got a pot of flowers on her dashboard and she's too busy gobbing off to her passenger, she'll crash and take someone else with her. Legislate for the retards by having a hard shoulder, or make the driving test much harder, with periodic retests. [/QUOTE]