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 ...

More than 53,000 incidents of the mistake have been recorded in recent years, with thousands of UK drivers risking a £100 fine and three ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

More than 53,000 incidents of the mistake have been recorded in recent years, with thousands of UK drivers risking a £100 fine and three ...

Ministers are being urged to reinstate the hard shoulder on smart motorways -Credit:Steve Parsons/PA Ministers are being urged to reinstate the hard shoulder on smart motorways. The RAC issued the ...

Drivers who flout 'red X' lane closures on smart motorways are now facing an automatic £100 fine as safety cameras are upgraded. The improved cameras are able to detect vehicles ignoring the X and ...

Motoring experts have warned UK drivers not to get caught out by speed camera myth that could leave them with a fine, points on their licence ...

Smart motorways could be scrapped from England completely - in a shake-up impacting millions of motorists. That's if the Labour Party government bows to pressure from experts who are calling for smart ...

On April 15, Rishi Sunak’s Conservative government announced that plans for new, dangerous “smart motorways will be cancelled in recognition of the current lack of public confidence felt by drivers ...