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https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/advice/driving-advice/smart-motorways/
https://www.theaa.com/driving-advice/smart-motorways
BBC How smart are Highways England's smart motorways? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-48783615
all lane running schemes permanently remove the hard shoulder and convert it into a running lane.
On these types of motorway, lane one (formerly the hard shoulder) is only closed to traffic in the event of an incident.
Controlled motorways have three or more lanes with variable speed limits, but retains a hard shoulder. The hard shoulder should only be used in a genuine emergency
Dynamic hard shoulder running involves opening the hard shoulder as a running lane to traffic at busy periods to ease congestion.
Dev Naran
M6
May 2018
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-50188195
Derek Jacobs, M1
unnamed woman, M1
Jason Mercer, M1 near Sheffield
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-48580547
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-49567968
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50169527