Plans for new smart motorways have been cancelled, recognising the lack of public confidence felt by drivers. Last year, I spoke in the debate on the Transport Committee's report on smart motorways, which highlighted a number of safety concerns. The M1 forms the spine of our constituency, the vast majority is all-lane running smart motorway. I was unconvinced of the benefit to our local communities then so I am pleased that the Government has listened to the public's concerns and cancelled the future implementation of smart motorways.
The existing smart motorways will benefit from £900m safety improvements. This includes progressing plans on installing 150 extra emergency areas across the network in line with the commitments made in response to the Transport Select Committee, as well as further improving the performance of stopped vehicle detection technology on every all lane running smart motorway.
More info
https://www.gov.uk/.../news/all-new-smart-motorways-scrapped
You can read my speech last year https://www.mark-fletcher.org.uk/.../debate-transport...
