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1. SMART Motorways advocate made chief road safety advisor

   ... NATIONAL Highways has placed a prominent supporter of the smart motorway rollout as a chief road safety advisor. Nick Reed was ... safety on England’s Motorway and A-road network. The smart motorway roll-out has been peppered with problems since the outset. From ...

   Simon Hancocks - 30/11/2021 - 10:38

2. MV Agusta to attempt record of visiting the most countries in 24-hours

   ... Italy. Mv Agusta Brutale 800 RR 2020 Specs | SCS Smart Clutch System Mv Agusta Brutale 800 RR 2020 Specs | SCS Smart Clutch System | Visordown.com Video of Mv Agusta Brutale 800 ...

   Simon Hancocks - 16/06/2021 - 12:50

3. Automatic £100 fines brought in for motorway lane violations

   ... that are marked with a red ‘X’ on the UK’s network of smart motorways. The red ‘X’ is used to warn motorists that a lane of the ... is something that was supposed to be implemented on all UK smart motorways from the start. Sadly, that didn’t happen initially, although ...

   Simon Hancocks - 18/10/2021 - 10:23

4. New ‘Smart’ motorways deemed unsafe by Highways England

   ... report, first published in 2016, that claims that so-called Smart motorways could be 216% more dangerous for those broken down than a ... Systems (SVDS) would be rolled out across all sections of Smart motorways. AS it is the SVDS is only in place on a few parts of the ...

   Simon Hancocks - 31/08/2019 - 10:30 - 2 comments

5. M25 smart motorway fails again just days after deadly crash

   ... England have revealed that all is not well with the UK’s smart motorway network. Indeed, the issues have become bad enough that sections ... England staff are plagued with similar outages on the smart motorway network. With staff seeing errors and outages so much, they ...

   Simon Hancocks - 17/03/2022 - 14:37

6. Government could consider smart motorway U-turn after report

   ... Grant Schapps is reported to be taking stock of the UK’s smart motorway network in light of a report brought by a national UK newspaper. ... overhaul of ALR roads. Smart motorway economics based on ‘biased’ economic modelling It is ...

   Simon Hancocks - 04/11/2021 - 08:19

7. Nearly half of motorists avoiding lane one of ALR smart motorway

   ... to avoiding lane one when using an All Lane Running (ALR) smart motorway. The results contradict the entire reason the ALR roads ... that there is a belief among motorists that lane one of a smart motorway is mainly inhabited by trucks and lorries, leading people to ...

   Simon Hancocks - 07/12/2022 - 13:55 - 0 comments

8. Driver involved in Paul Smart crash avoids jail

   ... driver responsible for the death of motorcycling legend Paul Smart has avoided prison after he was sentenced last week. The motorist, ... sentence after he admitted to causing the death of Mr Smart by careless driving. Defending Gladwell was his barrister John Dye, who ...

   Alex Whitworth - 26/06/2023 - 09:07 - 0 comments

9. Smart Motorways ‘No Longer Safe’ Says National Highways Whistleblower

   ... accImages.createImage(); Smart Motorways were heralded as a solution to the UK’s overcrowded motorway ... in danger of being rear-ended in a collision. Much of the Smart Motorway network is what is called All Lane Running (ALR), with no hard ...

   Simon Hancocks - 29/04/2024 - 09:08 - 0 comments

10. Majority of UK motorists want existing ALR smart motorways scrapped, study finds

    ... to reinstate the hard shoulder in existing all-lane-running smart motorways.  The research comes from the RAC , which says that ... that many drivers already have by cancelling future smart motorway schemes which would have seen around dozens more miles of hard ...

    Alex Whitworth - 20/04/2023 - 11:26 - 0 comments

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