Smart motorways were introduced as a cost-effective alternative to road widening, providing increased capacity and reducing congestion on the busiest sections of British motorway. What makes a smart ...

Ever since smart motorways were introduced in the UK in 2006, they have proved highly controversial. The concept was brought in to create much-needed capacity on key parts of a congested road network.

UK drivers have been avoiding using smart motorways due to concerns over the traffic measures, which could see drivers fined £100, as well as the lack of hard shoulders. A recent report found that 33 ...

There's been a sharp increase in the number of drivers feeling nervous driving on 'smart' motorways, new research has found. A huge 46 per cent of drivers told the AA they feel nerves or anxiety on ...

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 ...

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 ...

For many people, the rollout of smart technology across the UK’s road network has been clouded by fears about the removal of traffic-free safety lanes. Traditionally, motorway hard shoulders offered ...

Originally built to “manage traffic in a way that minimized environmental impact, cost and time to construct by avoiding the need to build additional lanes,” smart motorways were the pioneering idea ...

In one of his essays, George Orwell pilloried the use of “political language” – consisting “largely of euphemism, question begging and sheer cloudy vagueness”, said Leo McKinstry in the Daily Express.

After a series of high-profile fatal accidents, the U.K. Dept. for Transport has scrapped plans to roll out $1.2 billion worth of additional “smart motorways.” However, the government will retain the ...

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 schemes, ...