WORK to make one of Swindon's main roads safer has now finished. 

In Swindon Borough Council's latest highways newsletter, the local authority confirmed that construction work to install new crash barriers on Great Western Way had been completed. 

Motorists have been experiencing delays on the major road due to lane closures as workers carried out the addition of vehicle restraint systems to the area. 

A spokesperson for Swindon Borough Council said: "Work to install vehicle restraint systems (crash barriers) along Great Western Way, between Mannington roundabout and Blagrove roundabout, has been completed.

"The new barriers are now in place in the central reservation, as well as on the northbound nearside verge near Bodiam Drive. All other civil engineering work has also been completed."

Throughout the construction road workers faced difficulty due to impatient and speeding drivers ignoring the temporary speed limit restrictions while they worked. 

Wiltshire Police had to regularly patrol the area and warn drivers not the behave in such a way because they putting the workers at risk. 

The council did add that although this work had finished there was further construction work needed.

"Further work to replace some of the equipment at the pedestrian crossing near Blagrove roundabout is continuing," they said.