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Minister opens smart motorway in south west15/01/2014 Roads Minister Robert Goodwill has officially opened the south west’s first smart motorway. |
New section of smart motorway to open24/04/2014 Another section of smart motorway will open on the M25 in Kent and Surrey next week. |
New section of smart motorway opens30/04/2014 The latest section of smart motorway has opened on the M25 in Kent and Surrey today (Wednesday 30 April). |
Innovative pole allows for safe maintenance of signs19/06/2014 Crown International has released computer-generated images of its latest rotating and lowering poles, in response to demand from contractors involved in smart motorway schemes. |
Chevron to provide traffic management on smart motorway project16/07/2014 Chevron will provide traffic management on the M60 and M62 smart motorway project after winning a contract worth £6.6 million over the next two years. |
Balfour Beatty awarded M3 smart motorway project23/07/2014 Balfour Beatty has been awarded a £129 million scheme to upgrade a 13 mile stretch of the M3 through Hampshire and Surrey to a ‘smart motorway’. |
MVIS develops journey time solution for M105/08/2014 Mobile Visual Information Systems (MVIS) has developed a temporary journey time solution (JTS) that has been in constant use throughout the installation of a smart motorway on the M1. |
Final section of M25 ‘smart motorway’ completed early10/11/2014 Skanska Balfour Beatty, a construction joint venture working on behalf of Connect Plus for the Highways Agency, has completed a £1.3bn upgrade of the M25 motorway 36 weeks ahead of schedule. |
M4 smart motorway project given 2016 start date26/11/2014 Work on a proposed smart motorway upgrade on the M4 could get underway in 2016. |
Costain introduces improved excavator safety on M1 project08/12/2014 Costain has introduced a new way to improve excavator safety whilst working on the M1 J28-31 smart motorway project. |
Crown wins M1 contract07/04/2015 Crown International has secured a contract to supply roadside poles for a stretch of smart motorway on the M1. |
Safety campaign launched on smart motorway route10/08/2015 A new safety campaign has been launched along a smart motorway route on the M60 in Greater Manchester. |
M60 road workers make a stand for safety07/10/2015 Employees working on the M60 smart motorway route in Greater Manchester recently made a united stand in support of road worker safety by holding an ‘Aiming for Zero’ awareness day. |
Specialist cranes needed for removal of M62 gantries10/11/2015 Specialist 500 tonne cranes will be used to remove three overhead gantries from the M62 near Rochdale in order to allow a smart motorway upgrade to continue. |
First phase of Wakefield smart motorway to go live25/11/2015 Drivers will be able to use an extra lane on a section of the M1 near Wakefield ahead of a new smart motorway going live next month. |
Great crested newts found on M110/12/2015 Large numbers of great crested newts have been found on the M1 smart motorway scheme. |
Final phase of £120m smart motorway goes live01/02/2016 The final phase of a new £120 million smart motorway has gone live on the M1 near Wakefield. |
M6 stretch converted to smart motorway08/02/2016 A £100 million upgrade to convert a stretch of the M6 in the Midlands into a smart motorway has been completed. |
Work on M6 smart motorway upgrade to start18/02/2016 Work to upgrade a 20-mile stretch of the M6 in Cheshire to a smart motorway will start later this month. |
Smart motorway goes live on M104/04/2016 The final phase of a £205 million upgrade of the M1 to a smart motorway between the East Midlands and South Yorkshire has gone live. |
M62 smart motorway saving drivers time12/04/2016 The number of people using the M62 smart motorway is increasing with drivers saving up to 30 minutes each week. |
Superspan gantries to be installed on M6203/05/2016 The first of eight ‘superspan’ gantries crossing whole sections of the M60 and M62 Manchester smart motorway project will be installed later this week. |
Work on Manchester’s smart motorway enters new phase14/06/2016 Highways England has started work to upgrade 56 overhead gantries on the 17-mile smart motorway route between the M60 and M62 in Manchester. |
DfT approves M4 smart motorway plans06/09/2016 The proposed upgrade of the M4 from junctions 3 (Hayes) to 12 (Theale) to a smart motorway has been given development consent by the Department for Transport. |
Health and well being of road workers highlighted at HE event05/10/2016 Operatives working on the M60/62 smart motorway project in Greater Manchester got together to raise awareness about road worker health, safety and wellbeing. |
Highways England outlines details of £6bn Smart Motorway Alliance23/08/2018 Highways England has outlined key information about its Smart Motorways Alliance (SMA) plans - potentially worth up to £6bn over 10 years - which reflects a radical new direction for contractual arrangements on the strategic road network. |
Highways England releases £7bn smart motorways tender12/12/2018 Highways England has launched the procurement process for a smart motorways alliance with an estimated value of £7bn, over a 10 year period. |
£256m upgrade 'makes M6 fit for the future'09/04/2019 Highways England has completed a £265m project to add extra lanes and new technology to a 19-mile stretch of the M6, which it called the most significant change since the motorway first opened in Cheshire in 1963. |
AA says only one in 10 feel safer on smart motorways15/10/2019 Only one in 10 drivers say they feel safer on all lane running (ALR) smart motorway schemes compared to a traditional motorway, according to a study by the AA. |
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