Conservative leadership hopeful Liz Truss has said she would scrap smart motorways where they are not working, if she becomes prime minister.
that the benefits of all-lane running motorways were enough to justify the safety risks of permanently removing the hard shoulder.
However, an additional £390m of public funds was promised provided for more refuge areas and technology to detect stopped vehicles.At the end of 2020 there were 369 miles of smart motorways in England, including 168 miles without a hard shoulder. Dynamic sections - which are currently being phased out and replaced with all-lane running - are largely concentrated along the M6 and the M42 in the Midlands, as well as on the M62 outside Leeds and Bradford.Emergency bays give cars space to pull off the road when there's no hard shoulder
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