I was on a service call at Hartshead Moor services westbound when they closed the M62 today, i walked over the bridge and did a call at the eastbound.
Whilst stood on the bridge i watched an ambulance trying to get through the traffic, it took it 15 minutes to get from the entrance slip road to the services to the exit slip road back on.
I stood in amazement at the fact the have closed the hard shoulder for 8? miles.
The reason they are working on the M62 is to put a variable hard shoulder in, this is only going to make matters worse.
If the ambulance took 15 minutes to get past the services(1/2 a mile at the most), how long to get to the accident at gildersome ? (5 miles further up)
Surely this hard shoulder system is going to cost lives as the emergency services can’t get through.
Rant over :roll:
(I escaped through the staff exit and went the back way through Bradford to get back home to Boston Spa :D )