smart motorway

15/01/2014

Roads Minister Robert Goodwill has officially opened the south west’s first smart motorway.

24/04/2014

Another section of smart motorway will open on the M25 in Kent and Surrey next week.

30/04/2014

The latest section of smart motorway has opened on the M25 in Kent and Surrey today (Wednesday 30 April).

19/06/2014

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.

16/07/2014

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.

23/07/2014

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’.  

05/08/2014

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.

10/11/2014

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.

26/11/2014

Work on a proposed smart motorway upgrade on the M4 could get underway in 2016.

08/12/2014

Costain has introduced a new way to improve excavator safety whilst working on the M1 J28-31 smart motorway project.

07/04/2015

Crown International has secured a contract to supply roadside poles for a stretch of smart motorway on the M1.

10/08/2015

A new safety campaign has been launched along a smart motorway route on the M60 in Greater Manchester.

07/10/2015

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.

10/11/2015

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.

25/11/2015

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.

10/12/2015

Large numbers of great crested newts have been found on the M1 smart motorway scheme.

01/02/2016

The final phase of a new £120 million smart motorway has gone live on the M1 near Wakefield.    

08/02/2016

A £100 million upgrade to convert a stretch of the M6 in the Midlands into a smart motorway has been completed.

18/02/2016

Work to upgrade a 20-mile stretch of the M6 in Cheshire to a smart motorway will start later this month.  

04/04/2016

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.

12/04/2016

The number of people using the M62 smart motorway is increasing with drivers saving up to 30 minutes each week.

03/05/2016

The first of eight ‘superspan’ gantries crossing whole sections of the M60 and M62 Manchester smart motorway project will be installed later this week.

14/06/2016

Highways England has started work to upgrade 56 overhead gantries on the 17-mile smart motorway route between the M60 and M62 in Manchester.

06/09/2016

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.

05/10/2016

Operatives working on the M60/62 smart motorway project in Greater Manchester got together to raise awareness about road worker health, safety and wellbeing.

23/08/2018

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.

12/12/2018

Highways England has launched the procurement process for a smart motorways alliance with an estimated value of £7bn, over a 10 year period.

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.

15/10/2019

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.