Smart motorways promised a safer, less congested future of highway travel. Now they are being exposed as digital death traps.

I regularly drive on a 20 mile stretch of smart motorway, often late at night. When do "restrictions" end? For example, if ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

New emergency areas for drivers on the M4 in Berkshire have been completed and opened for use. A nationwide programme to install more than 150 additional refuge bays across the motorway network ...

What kind of brainstorm produced the brain fart that followed through to become the Next Big Idea for the nation’s motorways?

Nine out of a top-ten list of ‘worst’ routes for drivers are sections that have been converted to ‘smart’ motorways, a new survey has found. The AA spoke to 13,775 drivers via an online ...

The M25, otherwise known as the London Orbital Motorway, was voted the absolute worst motorway in the UK - taking a 40 per cent share of the vote. This result reflects a 2013 poll which found that 30 ...

Smart motorways such as the M27 have “failed”, with it time to bring back the hard shoulder, the AA has said. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The News, you can get unlimited access ...

A driving theory teacher with over 1.1 million followers on TikTok has issued a warning to UK motorists that they could be ...

A major motorway in Scotland has been named one of the worst in the whole of the UK by motoring experts. The M8, between Edinburgh and Glasgow, was included in a list of the most hated routes by ...

In 2006, National Highways (then known as Highways England) opened the first smart motorway, selecting the M42 in the midlands of England. Smart motorways promised to revolutionise motorway travel.

A nationwide programme to install more than 150 additional refuge bays across the motorway network started in June 2023 as part of £900m of safety improvements on existing smart motorways.