Minister rejects calls to reverse scrapping of hard shoulders on smart motorways
Minister rejects calls to reverse scrapping of hard shoulders on smart motorways
Smart motorways which kept their hard shoulders are said to be the safest in England (Picture: PA)
The government has rejected calls to bring back emergency stopping lanes to smart motorways where they’ve been removed.
Pressure has mounted on the government to stop or rethink the rollout of ‘all-lane’ smart motorways where the hard shoulder is used as a live traffic lane while monitoring systems…