{"id":1763,"date":"2021-01-20T17:47:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T17:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guildford-iam.org.uk\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2021-01-20T17:47:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T17:47:43","slug":"smart-motorways-criticised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guildford-iam.org.uk\/?p=1763","title":{"rendered":"Smart Motorways criticised"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday South Yorkshire&#8217;s senior coroner returned a verdict of unlawful killing following a collision between a lorry and a stationary car on a smart motorway stretch of the M1.  One national newspaper journalist has stated that &#8220;the only smart thing to do is to avoid driving on the inside lane of any motorway with all-lane running.  I don&#8217;t care what it says in the Highway Code about pulling over to the left after overtaking.&#8221;  Last night, Grant Shapps, Transport Secretary, demanded an &#8220;urgent meeting&#8221; with Highways England to discuss its progress in making the new motorway network safer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday South Yorkshire&#8217;s senior coroner returned a verdict of unlawful killing following a collision between a lorry and a stationary car on a smart motorway stretch of the M1. One national newspaper journalist has stated that &#8220;the only smart thing&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guildford-iam.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guildford-iam.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guildford-iam.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guildford-iam.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guildford-iam.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guildford-iam.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guildford-iam.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guildford-iam.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guildford-iam.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}