HC Deb 31 October 1990 vol 178 c512W
Mr. Higgins

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will reconsider his decision not to install appropriate traffic signals and gates at suitable intervals on the central reservation of motorways so that the gates can be opened by the police and vehicles trapped on a blocked carriageway can escape using the one running in the other direction.

Mr. Chope

No. Safety fences can already be removed in extremis as shown by the incident on the M1 on 23 October.