New smart motorway plans being scrapped
Plans to have more stretches without hard shoulders are cancelled amid cost and safety concerns. …
Edmund King, the AA’s president, said he welcomed the decision to scrap planned smart motorways and said it was a “victory for common sense”, calling for the hard shoulder to be reinstated on existing smart motorways, including a permanent red ‘X’ and new lane markings. He hoped the government’s decision marked the end of “deadly” smart motorways.