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More than 1,000 motorists a week are being caught speeding on the UK's smart motorways, police figures suggest.
Last year, 52,516 fixed penalties were issued on 11 smart sections, including on stretches of the M1, M25 and M6.
This compared to 2,023 on the same stretches in 2010-11, before they were upgraded to smart motorways - which use the hard shoulder and variable speed limits to control traffic flow.
The government says they are used to improve capacity, not generate revenue.
Smart motorways are operated by Highways England, which uses overhead gantries - also containing speed cameras - to direct traffic into open lanes and change speed limits depending on the volume of traffic.
Ticket revenue has increased tenfold over 5 years. Have British drivers experienced the "improved capacity" that the government uses to justify the smart highways?
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday November 08 2016, @02:39PM
2. morons who you are behind at a left turn light, and instead of turning left when it is green, they are precious and special people who take up the WHOLE GREEN LIGHT WAITING to make a u-turn instead of doing a left and a left to get where they are going... selfish pricks, EVERYONE ELSE needs to make a left turn, and YOU waste the WHOLE left turn cycle waiting to do your u-turn... fuck you too...
I live on a street that heads all the way to downtown and it's one of those fun ones with 2 lanes either direction, so you're constantly rolling the dice on which lane to be in to try to avoid getting stuck behind people backed up waiting to turn. It's kind of ridiculous how many people want to make left turns during rush hour :P
Also fun when you're at a stoplight in that situation and they don't bother to put on their turn signal until the light turns green. I'm deciding which lane to be in on the assumption that you're not turning like you say. Ha, psych!
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"