All existing “smart motorways” should be scrapped, road safety campaigners and motoring groups have said after the UK government axed plans for any new routes.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced on Saturday that all plans for new smart motorways have been cancelled, citing financial pressures and safety concerns.
Fourteen planned smart motorways—including 11 that are already paused and three earmarked for construction—will be removed from the government’s road building plans, the Department for Transport (DfT) announced.
But the DfT said that the construction of two stretches of the smart motorway at junctions 6 to 8 of the M56 and junctions 21a to 26 of the M6 will continue as they are already more than three-quarters complete….