Motorway concrete barrier safety drive hits the hard shoulder

Government road safety chiefs have been accused of dragging their heels on plans to replace ageing motorway steel barriers with safer concrete systems.
Parliamentary answers have revealed National Highways has replaced just 53km of life-expired steel central reserve barrier with concrete between 2020 and 2025.
That is despite its own 2022 improvement plan identifying around 1,620km of steel barrier needing replacement across the network.
The Department for Transport mandated in 2005 that stronge