The land lay derelict until the Paddington Waterside Partnership was established in 1998 to coordinate the regeneration of the area between the Westway, Praed Street and Westbourne Terrace.

The Westfield Group ( with Hausinvest Europa ) opened a shopping centre in October 2008, bounded by the West Cross Route ( A3220, was the M41 ), the Westway ( A40, previously A40 ( M )), and Wood Lane ( opposite the BBC ), A219 ( also the old A40 ).

The Westway opened in July 1970 as the A40 ( M ) motorway but lost motorway status in 2000 when responsibility for trunk roads in Greater London was transferred from the Highways Agency to the Greater London Authority.

In the eastbound direction, a lane is lost as a slip-road descends to cross the National Rail tracks to Paddington station via the large plate-girder Westbourne Bridge, a road that previously carried traffic from Harrow Road to Bishops Bridge Road but was blocked at the north end and appropriated for the Westway scheme.

With the extension westward of the London Congestion Charge Zone between 19 February 2007 and 4 January 2011, the part of the road between Westbourne Park and the Westway roundabout that passed through the zone was designated as a " free through route " that allowed vehicles to cross the zone without paying the charge.

The route of the Westway was chosen to follow the easiest path from Western Avenue to Paddington by following the route of existing railway lines but passing an eight lane elevated motorway through densely populated Victorian North Kensington involved the clearance of a large number of buildings adjacent to the railway, particularly in the area west of Westbourne Park, where many roads were unceremoniously truncated or demolished to make way for the concrete structures.

The North Kensington Amenity Trust ( now Westway Development Trust ), was founded in 1971 to reclaim and develop this land for local community use and since 2000 local charity Urban Eye has initiated a programme of cleaning, painting and lighting to brighten up and improve the safety of the areas under the Flyover structure.

This plan had developed from early schemes prior to the Second World War through Patrick Abercrombie's County of London Plan, 1943 and Greater London Plan, 1944 to a 1960s Greater London Council ( GLC ) scheme that would have involved the construction of many miles of motorway standard roads across the city and demolition on a massive scale. Due to the huge construction costs and widespread public opposition, most of the scheme was cancelled in 1973 and the Westway, the West Cross Route and East Cross Route in east London were the only significant parts to be built.

The 1974 novel Concrete Island by J. G. Ballard was set in a junction between the Westway and M4 Motorway.

* The cover for The Jam's This Is The Modern World was taken under the Westway.

Following its closure in 1965, it was demolished to make way for the Westway urban motorway.

I-478 was planned to be signed and continue north to Interstate 78 at the Holland Tunnel via the now-canceled underground Westway project.

Before I-478 was moved to the Westway project in 1971, that project was planned as I-695, which would have continued north along the Henry Hudson Parkway to the George Washington Bridge ( Interstate 95 ).

The first stretch to be built was the Westway from Marylebone to Acton, which involved the demolition of thousands of homes and building a large concrete flyover which continues to be the major route into central London from the west.

The Ringways scheme met considerable opposition ; there were protests when the Westway was opened in 1970 and the Archway Road public inquiry was repeatedly abandoned during the 1970s as a result of protests.

In the late 1980s, while Warrior was still wrestling in Texas, he appeared in several TV ads for Westway Ford, a car dealership in Irving, Texas.

The adjacent bridge and nearby section of the Westway ( London ) was regenerated in 2007 in a partnership including Urban Eye, Transport for London and London Underground.

On the album notes bass player Herbie Flowers, who co-wrote the tune with Francis Monkman, says of " Westway ": " When we recorded this album, I was living out in West London, and the studio was in Central London.

The Farm was at the point where the Harrow Road, the Westway and the canal converge.

Westway was a radio soap opera broadcast twice a week on the BBC World Service from 1997 to October 2005.

It focused on life in and around the fictional Westway Health Centre in west London, and was named after the main route into London from the north west.

The slums were cleared during redevelopment in the 1960s and 1970s when the Westway Flyover and Trellick Tower were built.

Westfield Group ( with Hausinvest Europa ) has built a new shopping centre, bounded by the West Cross Route ( A3220, formerly the M41 motorway ), the Westway ( A40 ) and Wood Lane ( A219 ).

East of this point is Westway, part of the A40 Central London link from Paddington.

It runs east-west from the Euston Road at Regent's Park to the A40 Westway at Paddington.

The Westway is a long elevated dual carriageway section of the A40 route in west London running from Paddington to North Kensington.

Between the elevated Westway and Flyover, a short ( 100 m ) section of surface-level road allows westbound traffic from the Flyover to turn-off on to the Harrow Road ( A404 ) or eastbound traffic from the Harrow Road to access the Flyover.

Eastbound traffic from the Westway cannot exit here to reach the Edgware Road and continues on to the Flyover.

Plan of the London Motorway Box scheme from mid 1960s showing the Westway

The Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Maghull looking towards Leeds from Westway Bridge

It runs north from Shepherd's Bush, under the Westway ( A40 ) past Wormwood Scrubs where it meets Scrubs Lane.

The northern stretch of this road ( from the Westway to Scrubs Lane ) runs parallel to the boundary of the London congestion charge zone.

Apart from the radio version of Goodness Gracious Me, her other radio work includes guesting on Parsons and Naylor ’ s Pull-Out Sections, as well as regular appearances in the BBC World Service soap opera Westway as the pharmacist Namita ul-Haq.

The Connecticut Central Railroad was chartered in 1871, and its continuation in Massachusetts, the Springfield and New London Railroad, in 1874, to build a line from East Hartford to Springfield, with a branch to the Rockville Railroad at Westway.

Official IDC remix releases range from artists as diverse as 50 Cent and Radio 4 to Corsair Records label mates Lo Fidelity Allstars and Westway Records ' Dogtown Clash and cover major labels such as Sony / BMG, Universal, Astralwerks and EMI.

The films The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) and Never Let Go ( 1960 ) depict many Paddington streets, which suffered bombing in World War II and were subsequently demolished in the early 1960s to make way for the Westway elevated road and the Warwick Estate housing redevelopment.

With two exceptions, Western Avenue forms a grade-separated motorway standard dual-carriageway between Paddington ( Westway ) and the M40 motorway, which continues towards Oxford and Birmingham.

Westway at Paddington

Heading west, the Westway rises sharply as it passes Paddington Green ( at this point having two lanes in each direction ), then crosses the Grand Union Canal branch to Paddington Basin just south of Little Venice.

Continuing westward, the Westway runs parallel with the main-line railway for about before turning south-west at Westbourne Park and crossing the railway to run immediately adjacent to London Underground's Hammersmith and City Line for as far as Ladbroke Grove station, after which it returns to a more east-west alignment for the to the elevated roundabout junction with the West Cross Route ( A3220 ) and flyover that takes vehicles high above the roundabout and Wood Lane ( A219 ) to return to ground level and connect to the end of Western Avenue.

* Justin Clack of Frost Meadowcroft writes about Westway ( London ) in Umbrella Magazine issue 4 in an article " Something In The Air ".

A twisted adaptation of Robinson Crusoe, the story's protagonist, Robert Maitland, a wealthy architect, finds himself stranded in a manmade ' island ' ( a section of fenced-off wasteland in the middle of a motorway intersection ) between the Westway and an imagined spur of the M4 Motorway in west London, and is forced to survive on only what is in his crashed Jaguar and what he is able to find.

Inside the foldout sleeve are various pictures of Hawkwind and the Pink Fairies playing together underneath the Westway in London.