Plans to have more stretches without hard shoulders are cancelled amid cost and safety concerns.
The building of all new smart motorways is being cancelled over cost and safety concerns, the government has announced.
They also use the hard shoulder as an extra lane of traffic, which critics claim has led to road deaths. Seven of the 14 projects that have been cancelled were going to involve converting stretches of motorway into "all-lane running" roads where the hard shoulder is permanently removed. Smart motorways were developed to create more capacity and cut congestion on roads, without spending money and causing disruption building news ones.What is a smart motorway?controlled, which have a permanent hard shoulder, but use technology such as variable speed limits to adjust traffic flows
All three models use overhead gantries to direct drivers. Variable speed limits are introduced to control traffic flow when there is congestion, or if there is a hazard ahead. These limits are controlled by speed cameras.in South Yorkshire in 2019, welcomed the move but pledged to continue campaigning for the hard shoulder to return on every road.
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