Great. Thank you On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 9:45 PM [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > Best Regards, > > Andy > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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