Smart motorway drivers face £2,500 fines for ignoring a sign on the motorway, it has been warned. Current smart motorways include the M1, M6 and M25, as well as the M60, and M42 - but motorists ...

Smart motorway signs indicating a speed limit change Rule 256 of the Highway Code stipulates that: "A single sign of signal can display advice, restrictions and warnings for all lanes.

The government has been urged to reinstate hard shoulders on Britain’s smart motorways after being accused of wasting money on the now cancelled projects. Exactly a year after prime minister ...

More than 53,000 incidents of drivers ignoring lane closed signs on smart motorways have been recorded since 2021, new research has found. Road safety charity IAM RoadSmart, which conducted the ...

A year after the U.K. government halted the expansion of so-called "smart motorways," pressure is growing to reintroduce emergency hard shoulders on nearly 200 miles of national highways. A new ...

The rollout of “all-lane-running” smart motorways is being paused amid safety concerns, the Government has announced, although critics say the move does not go far enough. The Department for ...

There are currently sections of smart motorway on parts of the M1, M4, M5, M6, M42 and M62. They were were first introduced in England in 2014 and are built and managed by Highways England.

The smart motorway updates to the 90-year-old Code come after another recent consultation looking at creating a hierarchy of road users. Under the proposals, which are still under consideration ...