New smart motorway plans being scrapped

Plans for each caller astute motorways person been scrapped, it has been announced.

Fourteen astute motorways volition beryllium removed from authorities roadworthy gathering plans owed to a deficiency of nationalist assurance and fiscal pressures, the Department for Transport said.

The roads are a agelong of motorway wherever exertion is utilized to modulate postulation travel and easiness congestion.

Rishi Sunak said "all drivers merit to person assurance successful the roads they usage to get astir the country".

Fourteen planned astute motorways, including 11 that had already been paused and 3 that had earmarked for construction, volition beryllium removed from roadworthy gathering plans.

Initial estimations suggested constructing the astute motorway schemes would person outgo much than £1 billion, the authorities said, and cancelling the schemes would present let much clip to way nationalist assurance successful astute motorways implicit a longer period.