Smart motorways are ‘an expensive failure’ says lobbying group

Smart motorways are ‘an expensive failure’ says lobbying group

The Transport Action Network, which campaigns for more sustainable transport, has said that the Government’s release of 16 evaluation reports showed that “smart” motorways have been a “costly failure”. The network, which is calling for all smart motorways to have a hard shoulder reinstated and turned into controlled motorways instead, said that of the 11 five-year-after-opening reports (those with the most data), nine (82%) showed that journey t…