A 130ft long stretch of Cambridgeshire road which requires new road traffic barriers has had metal safety barriers installed to replace the crumbling wooden fencing following a £20,000 ‘makeover’. Cambridgeshire County Council have said that the improvements are part and parcel of routine maintenance. “We had some money in our road maintenance budget to replace old post and rail barriers,” said a spokesman. “As and when we can we are replacing these older barriers with more modern state-of-the-art barriers.” The council says a high proportion of the cost involved is not visible since “a lot of the money is spent on foundations for these”.

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