They say more safety data is needed before the hard shoulder is made into a permanent traffic lane.
The government has said it plans to make all future smart motorways "all-lane" running
The schemes use the hard shoulder as a permanent live traffic lane to increase capacity - but critics say this has contributed to deaths on the roads. The all-lane-running version, which involves opening the hard shoulder permanently to drivers, began in 2014. It described the government's decision in March 2020 that all future smart motorways would be all-lane-running versions as "premature".. Relatives of those killed on smart motorways have called for the hard shoulder to be permanently reinstalled after a number of incidents in which broken down vehicles were hit from behind.
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