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The M3 smart motorway near Camberley in Surrey (PA)
No new smart motorways without a hard shoulder will open in England unless radar technology to detect broken-down vehicles is installed, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has announced.
Mr Shapps also said that retrofitting the Stopped Vehicle Detection (SVD) system to the existing network will be accelerated by six months.
The action plan launched by Mr Shapps in March 2020 included a deadline of rolling out SVD across the entire network by March 2023, but this will now be completed by September next year.
There is growing concern over the safety of smart motorways - which involve the hard shoulder being converted into a running lane - due to several fatal accidents involving stationary vehicles being hit from behind.
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A total of £244 million has been spent on converting the M27 into a smart motorway NO new smart motorways without a hard shoulder will open in England unless radar technology to detect broken-down vehicles is installed, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has announced. The Cabinet minister also said retrofitting the Stopped Vehicle Detection (SVD) system to the existing network will be accelerated by Highways England. Here are 13 key questions and answers about the roads.
– What are smart motorways? They use technology to improve the flow of traffic, including using the hard shoulder as a live running lane and variable speed limits.
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