The building of new smart motorways in the UK is being cancelled over concerns about safety and cost, the government has said. There are 14 schemes, including 11 that had already been paused and three ...

Drivers are avoiding smart motorways over the risk of a £100 fine and lack of safety measures. 33 per cent of drivers have concerns surrounding smart motorways, with experts now offering tips to ...

Liz Truss says the UK’s experiment with smart motorways has failed and should be brought to an end. The frontrunner in the race to be the next prime minister made the comments in response to an ...

National Highways is being urged to restart its stalled programme to replace ageing motorway steel barriers with stronger ...

A year after the U.K. government halted the expansion of so-called "smart motorways," pressure is growing to reintroduce emergency hard shoulders on nearly 200 miles of national highways. A new BBC ...

A £390 million programme to add more than 150 additional emergency stopping areas to smart motorways in England has been completed, National Highways said. Construction work began in June 2023 after ...

The case for hard shoulders to be returned to motorways has been strengthened after a long-awaited safety report shows smart ...

Motorists who ignore lane closures on smart motorways face a £100 fine and three penalty points on their driver’s licence from March, under new proposals by Highways England. The Daily Telegraph ...

UK drivers are steering clear of smart motorways due to new traffic measures potentially hitting their wallets with a £100 fine, as well as concerns stemming from the removal of hard shoulders. A new ...

Claire Mercer is leading a fight to end “smart motorways” in the UK. Claire’s husband, Jason, was killed on a smart motorway on a section of the M1 near Sheffield, on June 7, 2019. Jason died along ...

Claire Mercer is leading a fight to end the use of “smart motorways” in the UK. Claire’s husband, Jason, was tragically killed on a smart motorway on a section of the M1 near Sheffield, on June 7, ...