Drivers will already be familiar with smart motorways around Birmingham on the M6 and M42 – and more recently on the M1 in Bedfordshire and the M62 between junctions 25 and 30 in West Yorkshire which is now open to traffic. Work to deliver further sections of smart motorways on the M4 between junctions 19 and 20, and the M5 between junctions 15 and 17, north of Bristol are due to be complete by spring 2014.
On these roads, we use smart motorways to actively manage traffic and improve your journeys, using a combination of variable mandatory speed limits and extra capacity through using the hard shoulder at peak times.
New smart motorway schemes that start work from 2013 onwards are being built to a new design standard , where the hard shoulder is permanently converted into an extra lane for traffic.
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