Southport motorists are being urged to get to grips with a new type of road being introduced in nearby Maghull or face possible danger, confusion, or financial penalties.
Van specialists LeaseVan.co.uk have explained smart motorways and their rules to UK drivers, in a bid to instil public confidence in the new road format.
Smart motorways take advantage of modern technology to proactively and remotely help traffic flow freely on some of Britain’s busiest routes.
They can also increase road capacity without costly and lengthy widening roadworks.
One way they achieve this is to temporarily open the existing hard shoulder to all traffic, shown by a speed limit sign above the lane – but no digital information display above the road means normal hard shoulder rules still apply.
If the hard shoulder has been permanently converted into an extra lane, this will be visually clear and marked by a broken, rather than solid, surface lane line.
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