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Each day on radio 2, there seem to be more and more road closures for seemingly trivial reasons. Further, the cleanup operations appear to take longer and longer.

Is it me?

Nope, it's not your imagination. They closed two lanes off of the M40 for a minor smack, vehicles were on the hard shoulder; everytime somebody ends up on the hard shoulder, they put the descretionary limits to 50 (many a time they forget to turn them off too). If a serious smack, the whole section of motorway is closed. This practise to the best of my knowledge has only come about since HATO came onto the seen.

PS, can someone tell those HATO dicks to not sit on bridges pretending to be Policemen, it's dangerous, stupid and least of all, disrupts the flow of traffic.

....meanwhile it's increasingly expensive/difficult to get even minor roads closed with months of warning for sporting events etc

perhaps the cycle time trial bunch should gather at these accident scenes and make use of the miles of unused motorway for a few hours.

This Safe Speed PR may shed some light: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SafeSpeedPR/message/339

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Paul Smith
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Their shovels are worn out with all the 'scraping people off the roads'.

Ditto minor road closures.

My commute's 32 miles of mostly minor roads, and I'm currently diverting round two roads closed for roadworks, and fairly minor ones at that.

May I be excused for entertaining a suspicion that the hidden agenda is to cause as much distress and disruption to the motorist by way of apportioning blame to the 'many'?

Your PR covers cases involving deaths but they seem to close roads for hours for any reason now.

The drones are following Brunstrom's rule book too literally.