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Motorways: Safety Measures

Asked by Sarah ChampionLabourDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 27 April 2026UIN 129148

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what is the current average distance between emergency refuge areas on All Lane Running Smart Motorways.

Answered by Simon Lightwood

National Highways has completed construction of 151 additional emergency areas across the All Lane Running smart motorway network, through the National Emergency Area Retrofit programme. Across every All Lane Running motorway, the average distance between places to stop in an emergency is now less than a mile (around 0.9 miles), compared to around 1.2 miles before the retrofit.

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