Rishi Sunak has scrapped plans for new smart motorways amid concerns over safety and cost. A campaign group says there have been at least 79 deaths linked to them, while the government admit the £1,000,000,000 plan to build more isn’t financially sound.
has scrapped plans for new smart motorways in England amid concerns over safety and cost.
This includes 11 that had already been paused in January last year and three earmarked for construction, Downing Street said today.Highways England, a government agency that operators motorways, rolled out the stretches to manage traffic in a fast and cheap way in 2014. The Department for Transport admitted today the £1,000,000,000 plan to build more smart motorways isn’t financially sound and doesn’t have public backing.
While pre-existing smart motorways will remain but will now be subjected to a safety refit, including more emergency stopping places.
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