On 14/04/2019 10:56, Joseph Eisenberg wrote:
Can anyone from England confirm that this tag is intelligible in your dialect? Are there other names for these that should be mentioned on the page?
It's not in common non-trade use in the UK, but trade sites certainly use that name. Maybe others can (I'm sure there are a few UK highway engineers on this list), but I can't think of anything other than "concrete barrier" for these.
Partly the reason might be that they're a relatively recent introduction to the UK - divided roads historically had a grass median, later with added Armco or a metal catch rope (designed to deflect wayward traffic back into their lane, not just stop it). As the median (and hard shoulders) came to be viewed as "wasted space" there's more concrete around now - but the US name hasn't really crossed the Atlantic into general UK use.
Most importantly I'd say "Jersey Barrier" doesn't mean something _different_ here. If it did, that would be a problem.
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