In the wake of the unacceptable 6-7 hour delays on the A421 during weekend road closures in July, National Highways have now replied to Richard's request for a full and frank review of what failed and what steps are being taken to ensure no repeat in the future. The reply can be read below.
Richard Fuller MP said:
At this stage the review is incomplete as the investigation is still not complete and I will continue to press for full disclosure both during and at the conclusion of the investigation. It is a long and at times not wholly satisfactory read but I am grateful to National Highways for providing such a comprehensive interim reply.
I have also written to the Minister responsible for roads to ensure that she is aware of what happened that day.
Having spoken with National Highways and the Chief Constable of Bedfordshire Police to get their feedback on these events, I have also made some recommendations to the Minister that may help alleviate such issues in the future, both here in Bedfordshire and further afield.
I will share the Minister's response when I receive it.
The National Highways reply to Richard can be read below:
𝐹𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑥𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 50 𝑠𝑢𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒 2023, 𝑎 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑟 𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝ℎ𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑑. 𝑊ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑒, 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑛𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐 𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑒𝑑. 𝑅𝑒𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑦, 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛’𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑦 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑. 𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑙𝑦 𝑒𝑥𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛, 𝑟𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑜𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐 𝑀𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 (𝑇𝑀) 𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠. 𝑊𝑒 𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑒𝑑𝑔𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤.
𝑂𝑢𝑟 𝑎𝑖𝑚 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑑 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦. 𝑊𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑡, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒, 𝑤𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛’𝑡 𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡. 𝐼 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑟 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑟𝑢𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒. 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙 𝑎𝑡 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝐻𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠. 𝐼’𝑙𝑙 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑏𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑒ℎ𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠, 𝑠𝑜 𝑖𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠𝑛’𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒.
𝐼𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑡, 𝑤𝑒’𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑑𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑤, 𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑠 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑑.
𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑑𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑠.
𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙-𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑢𝑝𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑑.
𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑝ℎ𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑦𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑑.
𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 𝑣𝑒ℎ𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠.
𝑇𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑟𝑢𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑠 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑤𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑘𝑒𝑦 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑠. 𝑂𝑢𝑟 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑚 𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠, 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑑 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑑 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠.
𝐷𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐴1 𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑘𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 5–6 𝐽𝑢𝑙𝑦, 𝑤𝑒 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑑𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟. 𝑊ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐴603 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑤𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑐 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛. 𝐼’𝑚 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐵𝑒𝑑𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑑 𝐵𝑜𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑙 (𝐵𝐵𝐶), 𝑤𝑒 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑𝑢𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑘𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 25–28 𝐽𝑢𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 4-𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑎ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒.
𝐼’𝑚 𝑠𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑦 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑣𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒. 𝑂𝑢𝑟 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑑𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑙 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑠 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐 𝑡𝑜 ‘𝐴’ 𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ-𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛 𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑣𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑠.
𝑂𝑢𝑟 𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝐻𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑜𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑦 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑟 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑦𝑝𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑣𝑒ℎ𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑙 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 A428. 𝑈𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦, 𝑤𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛’𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑝 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐 𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠. 𝐼𝑓 𝑑𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡’𝑠 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑙.
𝑊𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑘𝑒𝑦 𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠, 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑇𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑠𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐴1 𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑡𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐴421. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑣𝑖𝑎 𝐵𝑎𝑟𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑑 𝑅𝑜𝑎𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐴428 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑛𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐴1 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐴421 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐴1, ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝐶𝑎𝑡
𝐼𝑛 𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑤𝑒 𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑒𝑑𝑔𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 ‘𝑅𝑜𝑎𝑑 𝐶𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝐴ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑’ 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑠, 𝑖𝑠𝑛’𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑑 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑠. 𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑛 𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑐 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒, 𝑤𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑢𝑝𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑗𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑦 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑠 (𝑉𝑀𝑆) 𝑎𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑚𝑒. 𝑂𝑢𝑟 𝑉𝑀𝑆 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑢𝑠𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑢𝑝𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑑 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠. 𝐻𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟, 𝑤𝑒’𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑦 𝑢𝑝𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑑𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑚𝑒. 𝑊𝑒’𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑉𝑀𝑆 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐴421 𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑡𝑜𝑛 𝑗𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.
𝑊𝑒 𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐 𝐸𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑎𝑗𝑜𝑟 𝐴-𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑑𝑠. 𝑊𝑒’𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑔𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛’𝑡 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑠. 𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑢𝑝𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠, 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝐻𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑙 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐 𝑢𝑝𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑠 𝐺𝑜𝑜𝑔𝑙𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑝𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑝𝑠. 𝐼’𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑣𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑣𝑖𝑎 𝑜𝑛𝑒.𝑛𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘, 𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑑 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑠.
𝐼 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝐶𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝐶𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑒 (𝐶𝐶𝐶) 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎 𝑎𝑣𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑. 𝐻𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟, 𝐼 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑔𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑟𝑎𝑝𝑖𝑑𝑙𝑦 𝑒𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑙𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑟𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑒’𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑑 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠.
𝑊𝑒’𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠𝑛’𝑡 𝑢𝑝 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡. 𝑊𝑒'𝑣𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑔𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠, 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑒’𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑙𝑦. 𝑊𝑒’𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒.
𝑊𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛’𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐 𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐴421 𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝐶𝑎𝑡 𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡, 𝑛𝑜𝑟 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑤𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑝ℎ𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑗𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑚𝑜𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑒. 𝐴𝑠 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑙𝑡, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛’𝑡 𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑣𝑒ℎ𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑏𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐴421 𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐴1 𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑. 𝑀𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝐻𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑂𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝐶𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑡 𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑡ℎ 𝑀𝑖𝑚𝑚𝑠. 𝑈𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛’𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒. 𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠𝑛’𝑡 𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑙 𝑆𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑎 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑒, 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑑𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑝ℎ𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝑈𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑤𝑖𝑡𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑦, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑆𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑦.
𝐶𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑝ℎ𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠 𝑎ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒, 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑛𝑜 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙. 𝐴𝑡 𝑛𝑜 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑝ℎ𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝐴𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑑, 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑑. 𝐼’𝑚 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑖𝑛 𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑚, 𝑟𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑙 𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑠 𝑢𝑠 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑑𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙-𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠, ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑢𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑑𝑎𝑝𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐 𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑑.
𝑊ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑤𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠, 𝑖𝑡’𝑠 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑒𝑑𝑔𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑢𝑛𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑖𝑠𝑛’𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑑𝑢𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑠. 𝐹𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑠 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠, 𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝ℎ𝑦𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑙𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑡 𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑠𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑, 𝑤𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝ℎ𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑘𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑦 𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑔𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑒𝑠. 𝑊𝑒 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎 𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑓𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠.
𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑠:
𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑒ℎ𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐 𝑀𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑠.
𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑒, 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑚𝑏𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠.
𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑒, 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑡.
𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒, 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑦𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 𝑣𝑒ℎ𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑑.
𝑊𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠.
𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑜𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑎𝑓𝑒𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑟𝑢𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑑 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑠.
𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑓𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑎𝑗𝑜𝑟 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑟𝑢𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.
𝑊𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑙𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑟𝑢𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑠 𝑒𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑠, 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒. 𝐼’𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝐻𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑐 𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑑 𝑛𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘. 𝑊ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑤𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑟𝑢𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑓𝑒𝑡𝑦, 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠𝑛’𝑡 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑎𝑖𝑑, 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑜𝑟 𝑑𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑘, 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠. 𝐼𝑛 𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠, 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑦𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠.
𝑊𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑑 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛 𝑎ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑗𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑦𝑠, 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑢𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟. 𝑊𝑒 𝑟𝑢𝑛 𝑠𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑑 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡𝑦𝑝𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑗𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑦𝑠, 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑎𝑓𝑒𝑡𝑦, 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠.
𝑊𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑔𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑓𝑓 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑛. 𝐴𝑑𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑣𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑢𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠. 𝐷𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡, 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑢𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑦𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑓𝑎𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐴47, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑟𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠.
𝑊𝑒’𝑟𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑜𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑤𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑑 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑎𝑗𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑛𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑓𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑤𝑖𝑓𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦.
𝑊𝑒’𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑙𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑢𝑛𝑠𝑎𝑓𝑒 𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑑, 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑣𝑒ℎ𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛 𝑑𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ-𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑑𝑠. 𝑊ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑤𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑢𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠, 𝐼’𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑎𝑓𝑒𝑡𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑢𝑡𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦. 𝑊𝑒’𝑑 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑎𝑡 𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑘. 𝑊𝑒’𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑑𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒.
𝑂𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐴428 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑚𝑒, 𝑤𝑒’𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑣𝑒ℎ𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑛 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑟𝑢𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐 𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑎𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑚𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑑, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑣𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑘𝑒𝑛𝑑. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑤𝑒’𝑟𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑦 𝑘𝑒𝑦 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑝𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛’𝑡 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑣𝑒ℎ𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑗𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.
𝐼 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑙 𝑦𝑜𝑢’𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝐴𝑡 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡, 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑦𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑣𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒, 𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑔𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑙𝑦 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑑 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑢𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑. 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑒, 𝑤𝑒’𝑙𝑙 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑘𝑒𝑦 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐.
𝑂𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛, 𝐼’𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑦 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑑. 𝐼 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝑖𝑡’𝑠 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑒’𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑚 𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑢𝑔𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑎𝑦. 𝑊𝑒’𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑙𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑤𝑒 𝑑𝑜 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑑𝑜 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑜 𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑟 𝑐𝑖𝑟𝑐𝑢𝑚𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑.
Richard's letter to the Roads Minister can be read here.
