Smart motorways are to be abandoned following concerns about their safety and cost, according to sources involved in the £3bn construction project.
The Government paused the introduction of all new routes at the beginning of last year while a review into the operation of the existing smart motorways was carried out. The i newspaper reports that the rest of the project, involving new roads in Greater Manchester, the Pennines and London, has now been shelved for the foreseeable future.
Senior industry sources involved in the project have been instructed it is to be scaled back significantly, and one contractor said they had been told that the future planned routes had been abandoned.
