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How to use the emergency refuge areas on smart motorways

Motoring Research team - 3
Emergency refuge areas are a safe haven for stranded vehicles on a smart motorway with no hard shoulder. We explain how to use them.
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How to drive safely on smart motorways

Motoring Research team - 6
Many UK motorways use technology to monitor and manage the flow of traffic. We explain how to drive safely on a smart motorway.
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What are the pros and cons of smart motorways?

Motoring Research team - 0
We look at the advantages and disadvantages of smart motorways –and the future for these controversial roads in the UK.
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Smart motorways to get new safety tech by September 2022

John Redfern - 0
National Highways will add safety cameras and radar-based technology to the UK's smart motorways by the end of September this year.
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Most drivers are scared to use the hard shoulder on smart motorways

John Redfern - 4
Three-quarters of drivers avoid using the hard shoulder when it's a running lane. And only five percent think smart motorways are safer.
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Majority of motorists want smart motorways scrapped

John Redfern - 0
The RAC Report on Motoring 2021 has found that six in ten drivers want a permanent end to all-lane-running on motorways.
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No new smart motorways without extra safety tech, says government

Daniel Puddicombe - 0
Transport secretary Grant Shapps says new smart motorways will not be allowed to open unless cameras can detect when vehicles are stationary.
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Smart motorway drivers told to ‘go left’

Gavin Braithwaite-Smith - 1
Highways England is urging drivers to ‘go left’ if they break down on a smart motorway as it launches its biggest ever safety campaign.
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Smart motorway safety inquiry launched by MPs

Richard Aucock - 2
The Transport Select Committee is to investigate the benefits and safety of smart motorways after some campaigners labelled them ‘death traps’
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Smart motorway safety tech shortage revealed

Richard Aucock - 1
Only 37 miles of England’s smart motorways are fitted with stopped vehicle detection radar to spot stationary vehicles in live lanes
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