Government announces £500m smart motorway spending

By Hamish Champ2018-07-06T06:00:00

Four schemes will start within the next 18 months

The government has announced that four new smart motorway schemes, worth around £500m, are expected to start construction work within the next 18 months.

Costain will begin work on one project – a nine-mile stretch of the M62 linking the M6 near Warrington to the M60 near Eccles – later this summer.

Mike Bull, Highways England’s smart motorways programme manager for the North, said smart motorways had proved to be effective at tackling congestion.

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