National Highways explains position on smart motorways emergency areas
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National Highways has clarified its policy after The Sunday Telegraph reported on the organisation’s actions to support drivers exit emergency areas (EA) on smart motorways. “Campaigners claim National Highways are no longer closing the nearside lane to traffic to help motorists safely leave these areas to rejoin the motorway,” said the NH response. “In fact, […]
The Midlands: New M1 and M5 emergency areas planned
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Fifty-four new emergency areas are planned for the M1 in Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Northamptonshire and the M5 in Worcestershire with construction due to begin from the beginning of April. These new emergency areas are as follows: National Highways is investing £390 million to give drivers on its network further opportunities to pull over into […]
Work to start on more than doubling emergency areas on stretch of M1
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National Highways is more than doubling the number of emergency areas on a stretch of the M1 in South Yorkshire with work to create the new places to stop in an emergency getting under way next month. Work to create new places to stop in an emergency on the M1 in South Yorkshire gets under […]