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Traffic by turning the hard shoulder into an extra lane. but safety campaigners say they've contributed to several deaths. here's our transport correspondent, caroline davies. marching through westminster yesterday, each coffin represents someone killed on a smart motorway. protesters want the hard shoulder to be brought back. more of england's roads are being turned into smart motorways, intended to ease congestion. some have had the hard shoulder removed to add an extra lane without having to use more land. if a car breaks down in a live lane, a red cross tells other drivers not to drive it....

Smart motorways are safe. at the moment, we only have a five—year evaluation record of 29 miles of smart motorway, because they are a relatively new concept. so the committee is calling for five years' worth of safety evidence on the network as currently exists. and then take a look and determine whether they are indeed safer, or less safe. the committee also wants the government and highways england to make the safety changes they promised five years ago on the smart motorways that are already operating. but it doesn't commit to bringing back the hard shoulder, saying in some cases it could...