Highways England is carrying out a ‘comprehensive review’ of variable speed limits on motorways but has defended its practice of implementing restrictions before drivers hit congestion.
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Highways England will be engaging with its supply chain during February and March to support the development of a new procurement model to deliver its Smart Motorways Programme.
Police in Derbyshire were been called to nearly 60% fewer crashes on a stretch of the M1 in the year after it became a smart motorway with the hard shoulder … Read more
Dublin’s M50 motorway is to get nearly €500m of investment to turn it into a smart motorway.
Highways England has awarded two smart motorway contracts worth a total £322m to a Morgan Sindall and BAM Nuttall joint venture – bmJV.
Drivers who ignore smart motorway lane closures face a £100 fine and three penalty points of their licence from March.
Highways England has awarded telent Technology Services Ltd a seven-year contract worth £450m to manage and renew the communications network that sits at the heart of smart motorways.
Highways England has opened a permanent fourth lane in each direction on a five-mile stretch of the M62 this week as part of what the Government-owned company called its “most … Read more
Average speed cameras on a seven-and-a-half mile stretch of the M1 have caught 3,000 drivers since they were switched on in May.
The smart motorway project on the M60 and M62 around Manchester has been delayed with the original December completion date being pushed back until next summer.