Speed limit signs are all over smart and non-smart motorways but drivers are only just realising you can freely ignore one type of speed limit sign Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express.

A recent freedom of information request by Panorama revealed 174 power outages affecting vital smart motorway safety equipment in the six months leading to February 2024.

Some drivers have been left stunned after discovering that there's a motorway speed limit sign that you can legally ignore without breaking any rules. plymouthherald Load mobile navigation.

In 2006, National Highways (then known as Highways England) opened the first smart motorway, selecting the M42 in the midlands of England. Smart motorways promised to revolutionise motorway travel ...

First trialled in the West Midlands in 2006, smart motorways use a series of scanners, cameras, lane closures and variable speed limits in an attempt to keep traffic moving when there is ...

Faulty digital gantry technology used on smart motorways is also putting drivers at risk, with a 2024 BBC Panorama Freedom of Information request discovering that between June 2022 and February ...

Smart motorways across England will temporarily deactivate today due to a vital technology upgrade. The car-detection systems and variable speed limit signs will be out of service, and drivers ...

Smart motorway drivers face £2,500 fines for ignoring sign on M1, M6, M25, M60, M42 Current smart motorways include the M1, M6 and M25, as well as the M60, and M42 - but motorists using them have ...

The so-called smart motorway technology has been installed at 24 locations along a 5.5-kilometre stretch of the Western Distributor between the Sydney Harbour and Anzac bridges in the central city.