Many smart motorways, are currently failing to offer the value for money expected when they were originally planned, according to newly released reports from National Highways. Two of the ...

Controversial 'smart' motorways are barely providing any economic benefit, damning new analysis has found. Two sections of smart motorway are actively losing the nation income, and a further six ...

Nearly half (49%) of drivers say they frequently or occasionally avoid using lane one on smart motorways without a hard shoulder, a new survey suggests. The RAC, which commissioned the poll of 1,904 ...

THE UK government outlined its plans to get rid of controversial smart motorways in a announcement in April 2023. Here, we look at when smart motorways were invented, and why they have been criticised ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New smart motorways have been scrapped by the government. (Getty Images) (Mark Kerrison via Getty Images) The building of 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 ...