Meera Naran said the halted expansion would give time to ‘reassess’ the smart motorway network.
Ms Naran told the PA news agency: “I welcome the pause in the rollout of smart motorways, I think it’s going to give us time to reassess the smart motorway network, also reassess the network as a whole.
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