The building of new smart motorways is being cancelled following concerns over safety and costs.
Fourteen planned smart motorways - including 11 that are already paused and three earmarked for construction - will be removed from government road-building plans, Downing Street has confirmed.
Around 10% of England's motorway network is made up of smart motorways. They involve various methods to manage the flow of traffic, including converting the hard shoulder into a live lane. Smart motorways were introduced in England in 2014 to ease congestion - there are 375 miles of smart motorway, including 235 miles with no hard shoulder.Plans for up to hundreds of miles of smart motorway were first announced in 2019, with the government aiming to roll out 400 miles across England by 2025.At the time, ministers said the policy was"paused" until five years of safety data for schemes introduced before 2020 had been collected.
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