The AA has joined campaigners in calling for all existing smart motorways to be scrapped. It comes after the government cancelled the building of all new smart motorways over cost and safety concerns.

She added: “That’s why Conservative ministers should reinstate the hard shoulder on existing smart motorways and carry out an urgent review of the inadequate safety systems and evidence ...

Around 13% of the nation's 1,900 miles of motorway network is made up of 'smart' stretches without a hard shoulder at any ...

The previous prime minister, Liz Truss, had vowed to scrap all smart motorways. This will not happen; existing smart motorways will continue to operate, with safety improvements. Smart motorways ...

“Government needs to do the right thing and reinstate the hard shoulder to all existing smart motorways and all the schemes under construction,” she told the Daily Telegraph. In 2023 the ...

“We know that no new all-lane running smart motorways will be built but it does beg the question of what we do with the existing stretches that are in operation?” Obeying red X signs is ...

Edmund King, president of the AA, told the BBC he welcome the government's move but that it needed to go further and restore a permanent hard shoulder to 375 miles of existing smart motorways.