[Osem]

Such is the volume of traffic that whatever alternative routes you might be able to take very soon become clogged up so yes you can check whatever you like before setting off but once youre stuck you're stuck whether it's on the closed motorway or the surrounding A and B routes.

Yes of course people could plan better but we have no idea how many people cancelled their travel plans having found out about these incidents. If this continues to happen more people will be inclined to avoid motorways wherever they can and use the alternative routes our motorways were designed to take the pressure off.

The authorities need to up their game in terms of dealing with such incidents more promptly to avoid gridlock. If we're going to tell the terrorists that we're not going to let them affect our way of life we can't be closing down all sorts of things for long periods of time every time somebody reports something on the hard shoulder. Terrorists aren't going to kill large numbers of people in this manner, there are far easier ways to do that.