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As part of our essential safety maintenance we are replacing the safety barrier and upgrading the lighting between South Cave and North Ferriby along with resurfacing the footbridge at Elloughton, to keep road users safe for years to come. Start date June 2024 End date Spring 2025 Cost TBC Latest updates Overview Documents Related road projects Latest updates 14 May 2025 Further overnight closures as we approach the scheme's end We’re now approaching the final stages of this scheme and have some further overnight closures scheduled as follows:  Wednesday 14 May Full eastbound clos…

Improving journeys on older smart motorways In this section What's happening National Highways is delivering a series of enhancements to sections of dynamic hard shoulder motorways across the country. ‘Dynamic hard shoulder’ (DHS) is an older form of motorway where the hard shoulder is turned on and off as a traffic lane in response to traffic flow. On 15 April 2023 the Government announced that plans for new smart motorways would be cancelled in recognition of the lack of public confidence felt by drivers and cost pressures.  This follows an announcement in January 2022 to pause the roll…

Ash dieback is affecting trees on the land we manage. We're taking action to slow its spread and make sure trees along our strategic road network remain safe. Start date November 2024 End date Spring 2025 Cost TBC Overview Documents We're committed to protecting the natural environment that surrounds our roads. We're responsible for 30,000 hectares of land and we want to foster a rich biodiversity across our soft estate. Trees are a very important part of this, whether we plant them ourselves or they're growing naturally on our land. We manage trees on our land through their whole life…

Last updated - 19.09.2025 13:16 The latest planned full closure information for England's strategic road network. Smart Motorways – technology upgrade work with reduced speed limits Find out where we're working and what this means for your journey. Advance notification of full closures on England’s motorways and major A roads. Closures are listed by start date, select a day from the row above the closures list to see the planned closures for that day. Closures generally run 8pm-6am unless they are over 12 hours. If you are travelling in the early morning, please note that your route may b…

Following several reactive repairs, we plan to carry out inspections and resurfacing on Wentbridge Viaduct and a pier replacement on Wentedge Road Bridge. This work is substantial and is likely to cause disruption to customers travelling on the A1. Start date February 2023 End date December 2025 Cost Approximately £30m Latest updates Overview Documents Latest updates 12 September 2025 Reopening Wentedge Road Bridge - 17 September We're working to re-open Wentedge Road (over the A1 south of Wentbridge Viaduct) on the morning of 17 September. This will need the following overnight clo…

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Smart Motorway Network All lane running motorway (ALR) 1 M1 Junction 13 - 16 12 M6 Junction 13 - 15 2 M1 Junction 16 - 19 13 M6 Junction 16 - 19 3 M1 Junction 24 - 25 14 M6 Junction 21a - 26 4 M1 Junction 28 - 31 15 M20 Junction 3 - 5 5 M1 Junction 32 - 35a 16 M23 Junction 8 - 10 6 M1 Junction 39 - 42 17 M25 Junction 5 - 7 7 M3 Junction 2 - 4a 18 M25 Junction 23 - 27 M6 29 8 M4 Junction 3 - 12 19 M27 Junction 4 - 11 22 M62 6 42 M1 9 M5 Junction 4a - 6 20 M56 Junction 6 - 8 21 5 14 10 M6 Junction 2 - 4 21 M62 J…

In this section Needing to stop, or being forced to stop, in an emergency on a live traffic lane is very rare. It can of course happen on any road but on high-speed roads it is more frightening, and help needs to be at hand quickly.  In March 2020, the Secretary of State for Transport published the Smart motorway evidence stocktake and action plan. The plan committed to implementing a range of measures to help drivers feel safe and be even safer in moving traffic. This included commitments to …

We’re building additional emergency areas on our all lane running smart motorways in the Midlands. Start date April 2024 End date Spring 2025 Cost £390 million national programme Overview Documents Project information The safety and confidence of people travelling on England’s motorways and major A-roads is our highest priority. We listened to your concerns and developed a programme to create additional emergency areas on sections of all lane running (ALR) smart motorway across the count…

This scheme will provide an improved link between the M54 and the M6. Currently, there's no direct motorway link from the M54 to the M6 north. This means high volumes of both long distance and local traffic use the local roads to travel this route. Start date TBC End date TBC Cost TBC Latest updates Overview Documents Related road projects Latest updates 18 September 2025 Survey Work - Autumn 2025 Since the Secretary of State granted our Development Consent Order (DCO) in April 2022, …