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 ...

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 ...

National Highways is being urged to restart its stalled programme to replace ageing motorway steel barriers with stronger ...

In one of his essays, George Orwell pilloried the use of “political language” – consisting “largely of euphemism, question begging and sheer cloudy vagueness”, said Leo McKinstry in the Daily Express.

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 ...

Delays are growing across England’s road network, with the average delay now at 11.6 seconds per vehicle per mile, compared to free flow. That is a 5.5% increase on year ending June 2024, according to ...

A huge stretch of one of the UK's busiest motorways was closed in both directions following a serious crash. Footage from motorway cameras on the M1 between J20 (#Lutterworth) and J21 (M69, Leicester) ...

A major UK motorway has partially closed after a nightmare crash between a car and a tanker. Emergency services rushed to the M1 following reports of a collision which led to a tanker being overturned ...

Drivers face a 'nightmare' on motorways across Britain during the summer holidays as they endure more than 220 miles of roadworks. Motorists going on trips will be delayed by work over stretches ...