Fewer Than 10 Percent of Emergency Stopping Areas Installed on Smart Motorways

Published on January 25, 2024

The head of a quango that maintains England’s motorways has admitted only 13 of 150 emergency stopping areas (ERAs) have been installed since the prime minister put up the funding to retrofit them to the controversial smart motorways. Nick Harris, chief executive of National Highways, was giving evidence to Parliament’s Transport Committee on Wednesday. In April 2023 Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the cancellation of further plans to convert motorways to all-lane running (ALR) smart motorways, which do not have a hard shoulder. He said it was owing to cost pressures and a lack of confidence among road users. In January 2020 the BBC reported 38 people had died on smart motorways between 2014 and 2019 and the following year the Transport Committee said deaths on smart motorways had jumped from five in 2017 to 15 in 2019....

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