Around 250 drivers a day are illegally using the hard shoulder in the West Midlands, it has emerged – as a new crackdown was launched which could see motorists fined.
Around 250 drivers a day are illegally using the hard shoulder in the West Midlands, it has emerged – as a new crackdown was launched that could see motorists fined.
Plans for new average speed cameras at the sides of roads in the West Midlands have been given a cold reception by Express & Star readers.
A jealous man pushed his ex to the ground as she tried to get her phone back, a court heard.
Scores of drivers were stopped by Highways Agency workers carrying out a census as they came off the M6 in Staffordshire as bosses look at extending a scheme to open up the hard shoulder.
Suspected cable thieves sparked a blaze in a substation next to the M6 near Walsall today, knocking out the signal to an overhead gantry.
In an act of appalling misjudgment, Shropshire Council agreed to foot the bill for any appeal by its waste contractor Veolia against the council's own refusal of planning permission for the highly controversial incinerator on the outskirts of Shrewsbury.
The hard shoulder along the busy M6 through the Black Country was officially opened to traffic in rush hour today in a bid to beat years of nightmare queues.
Drivers used the hard shoulder of the M6 through the Black Country for the first time as a trial run of the congestion-busting fourth lane went ahead without any glitches.
Toy shops around the world are going bananas for a cuddly robot monkey invented by a team of boffins in Wolverhampton.
Part of the controversial scheme to open the hard shoulder of the M6 during peak times has been axed amid a series of government cuts.
A new motorway jambusting scheme is set to come into operation in 2011 aimed at making life easier for commuters travelling into Shropshire from the West Midlands.
Drivers are able to use the hard shoulder on a stretch of the M6 motorway in the West Midlands during busy times from today – although they face scores of speed cameras.
Work to open the hard shoulder to traffic along a 40-mile stretch of the M6 through the West Midlands and Staffordshire started today.
Work to open up the hard shoulder on the M6 through the Black Country as part of a £150 million jam-busting scheme will start within weeks, it was revealed today.
