Smart motor way? It’s a scam

‘ OPERATOR: Smart motorways are like a known scam. That’s what people have got with this. Because that’s what everyone thinks they’re getting – lots of technology, right, lots of signals, lots of cameras, but what they got was like the All Lane Running [where there is no hard shoulder] we’ve got here.

‘It’s not lit at night, you don’t

have the signals to tell people to move over because some of them are a mile and a quarter apart. ‘Some of these screens are [from] 2005 to 2006. These flat screen ones, they’re quite low res.’ DAILY MAIL REPORTER: ‘These [CCTV control boxes] must be old.’ OPERATOR: ‘Yes they are, they were made at the very start of 2004.’