A 50mph speed limit will remain in place while traffic management systems are tested A £174m upgrade to turn the M3 into a "smart" motorway in Surrey and Hampshire has opened. The 13.4-mile ...

A motorist stops at an emergency refuge on a smart motorway stretch of the M3 in Surrey However, although 150 are supposed to be built by next year, only 13 have been completed so far. National ...

The orange-coloured refuges provide extra places to stop in an emergency on a smart motorway Spaces where cars can pull over in safety are to be added to smart motorways on the M3, M4, and M27.

More than 50 new emergency areas are to be built on smart motorways in ... M27, M4 and M3. A lane will be closed while work ...

The M27 and M3 in Hampshire will be getting new emergency areas to improve safety and public confidence in “unpopular” smart motorways. National Highways has confirmed there will be two new ...

Smart motorways will double in number over the next ... is planning on "making emergency areas more visible (M1, M3 and M5); introducing systems that detect stationary vehicles; and raising ...

The first 'smart motorway' in England opened in 2006 on a stretch of the M42. Since then hundreds more miles of motorways have been converted in order for the hard shoulder to be used by traffic ...

The first 73-mile stretch between Watford and Rugby was completed on Monday 2 November 1959 having taken 19 months to ...

Overnight roadworks on the M3 northbound near Basingstoke have overrun leaving the motorway closed. The resurfacing work between junction 7 for Basingstoke South and junction 6 for Basingstoke was ...

Highways England is tackling congestion on motorways by making them “smart” and adding extra capacity New research reveals that 53,000 smart motorway users have been caught breaking a vital ...

Highways England is tackling congestion on motorways by making them “smart” and adding extra capacity New research reveals that 53,000 smart motorway users have been caught breaking a vital ...