MPs call for 5-year pause on Smart motorway programme

MPs on the Transport Select Committee have urged the Government to pause the Smart Motorway Programme amid rising safety concerns.
The MPs want to see the Office for Rail and Road start a probe into the safety of all-lane running motorways, which have no hard shoulder, and scrutinise the Government’s recent £500m package of measures to make Smart motorways safer for motorists.
It described the government’s decision in March 2020 that all future smart motorways would be all-lane