Nine out of a top-ten list of ‘worst’ routes for drivers are sections that have been converted to ‘smart’ motorways, a new survey has found. The AA spoke to 13,775 drivers via an online ...

In 2006, National Highways (then known as Highways England) opened the first smart motorway, selecting the M42 in the midlands of England. Smart motorways promised to revolutionise motorway travel.

A nationwide programme to install more than 150 additional refuge bays across the motorway network started in June 2023 as part of £900m of safety improvements on existing smart motorways.

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A £390 million programme to add more than 150 additional emergency stopping areas to smart motorways in England has been completed, National ...

Vehicles on the M4 smart motorway, looking westwards towards junction 11 in Shinfield. Smart motorways without a hard shoulder are three times more dangerous on which to break down than those that ...