Jim McMahon responds to Transport Select Committee smart motorways report

Jim McMahon MP, Labour’s Shadow Transport Secretary, responding to a report on smart motorways by the Transport Select Committee, said: 

"This clearly confirms Labour's longstanding position that ministers have been wrongly pressing ahead on smart motorways when the overwhelming evidence warns against it.

"We know smart motorways in their current form, coupled with inadequate safety systems, are not fit for purpose and are putting lives at risk. Reinstating the hard shoulder while full investigations are carried out need not be costly - the Transport Secretary could do so with a single phone call.

"The Government must finally listen to what it is being told by countless victims' families, or we face more tragedy on our roads."