The widow of a man who was killed on a smart motorway is campaigning for the release of unpublished road evaluation reports.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...