AA president Edmund King told the newspaper: 'It's a nightmare for drivers. 'Of course we support putting in new emergency areas which, technically, should make smart motorways safer.

Smart motorways have been explained by experts, as many drivers have confessed they are worried about driving them. A smart motorway is a section of the road that uses traffic management to ease ...

A third of drivers report feeling “a lot less safe” on any form of “smart” motorway than they did three years ago, a new study has found. The survey of more than 13,500 drivers, conducted ...

More than 150 new emergency areas added to smart motorways - New stopping areas have been added to stretches of the M1, M3, M4, M5, M20, M25 and M27.

The AA spoke to 13,775 drivers via an online poll and discovered that nine of its completed top-ten list of ‘worst’ motorways were sections of smart motorway controlled by overhead gantry signs.

Many drivers have concerns over smart motorwaysUK motorists are shunning smart motorways amidst fears over the new traffic measures that could leave them out of pocket by £100, coupled with anxieties ...

Smart motorways use technology to ease traffic flow, with some using the hard shoulder as an extra lane. But the removal of the hard shoulder on some stretches led to safety concerns when drivers ...

ENGLAND’S smart motorways are set to switch off today as part of an essential tech update. The roads will remain open throughout the coming week but things like car-detection software and var… ...

Smart motorway software outage left drivers unsafe on a 9-mile stretch of the M62 for a month Calls for the hard shoulder to be reinstated after smart motorway failings By FREDA LEWIS-STEMPEL ...

National Highways data reveals a shocking 56 per cent of all motorway breakdowns in England last year happened on smart motorways – these routes make up just 20 per cent of the motorway network.

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 ...