It comes after government cancels plans to build more stretches of road without permanent hard shoulders.
The AA has joined campaigners in calling for all existing smart motorways to be scrapped.
Some 14 planned schemes, including 11 already on pause and three set for construction, will be scrapped due to finances and low public confidence. "The possibility of converting all lane running stretches to the 'dynamic hard shoulder' configuration, where the hard shoulder is open and closed depending on the levels of traffic, could be one option the government considers," said RAC road safety spokesman Simon Williams.
The Department for Transport said the new schemes would have cost more than £1bn, and cancelling them would allow time to track public trust in smart motorways over a longer period.controlled, which have a permanent hard shoulder, but use technology such as variable speed limits to adjust traffic flows
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.
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