Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress has been made towards making the M60 a smart motorway; and if he will make a statement.

As announced in the Roads Investment Strategy, Highways England are delivering a Smart Motorway on the M60 between junction 8 and junction 18, as part of the Manchester Smart Motorway (which also includes M62 Junction 18 to 20). This is currently being built and is due to open for traffic as planned in September 2017.

Highways England are also upgrading the M60 to Smart Motorway between the M60 junction 24 (M67 Denton Interchange) to junction 4 (M56 Kingsway interchange). This is currently in the early stage of its design development and due to open for traffic as planned in 2019-2020.