Ladbroke Grove tube station is on the road where it is crossed by Westway.

Westway is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in El Paso County, Texas, United States.

Westway is located at ( 31. 959214 ,-106. 574169 ).

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

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.

The full line is: " London's so nice back in your seamless rhymes, But we're lost on the Westway ".

The Westway is also mentioned in Blur's songs " Fool's Day " and " Under the Westway ".

It is also referenced in the Pete Doherty song ' Broken Love Song ' in the line ' By the * Westway / Inside The Scrubs ' as he once claimed to have lived beside the Westway in a caravan.

* In the Alex Rider series, a crash is staged on the Westway.

* The Westway is also featured on the front cover of A Weekend in the City by Bloc Party.

Frome's only cinema, the Westway, is in Cork Street in the town centre.

The north-bound street is called " Martins Lane ", the east-bound street is " High Street ", south-bound is " The Slade ", and west-bound is " Silver Street ", which leads to the more recent housing developments of " Westway Place " and " The Orchards ".

It is close to the elevated Westway section of the A40 road.

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.

Ladbroke Grove tube station is located on the road, at the point where it is crossed by the Westway.

The White City Stadium site, in Wood Lane adjacent to the Westway overpass and once part of the Exhibition, is now occupied by the BBC's Media Village.

The Westway has featured in songs by many British Rock bands:

* John Walter Baxter ( 1917-2003 ), British civil and structural engineer, designed the Westway

* Westway ( TV series ), a British TV series made in 1976

The Clash: Westway to the World is a 2000 documentary film about the British punk rock band The Clash.

* Westway ( 1997 radio series ), over 30 episodes of the BBC World Service Drama

On seven consecutive Friday nights in January and February 2008 Carbon / Silicon played a series of gigs at the Inn On The Green, right under the Westway in Thorpe Close, between Ladbroke Grove and Portobello Road.

* Westway ( 1997 radio series ), a BBC World Service soap opera

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 ).

Traversed by the east-west main roads of the A4 Great West Road and the A40 Westway, many international corporations have offices in the borough.

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

It ended with a protest in Hyde Park and the closure of the Westway by vehicles left parked on it.

Joe Strummer commented on this event in the Don Letts documentary Westway to the World on the end of the 101ers by saying " 5 seconds into their ( the Pistols ') first song, I knew we were like yesterday's paper, we were over.

The Hoover Building is referred to in a song by Elvis Costello and " Westway " is the title of a tune by the 1980s rock band Sky.

Fifteen years later, after the failure of the Westway proposal, the state settled on an at-grade boulevard up to 57th Street flanked by a new Hudson River Park.

Alan and Ted formed Cloaca, ( which also had Stefan Heller on bass guitar, Simon Thomas on vocals and guitar and eventually were joined by Mike Christer on guitar ), a band which played many gigs in the west London area supporting the likes of Gary Numan's ' Tubeway army ' and ' Henry Strand and the Westway Band ' featuring The Clash's Mick Jones and Joe Strummer.

Martin Grove Gardens is the area bounded by Kipling, The Westway, Martin Grove, and Dixon.

The Westway is served by the 52 Lawrence Avenue West TTC bus route.

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.

** Don Letts ( video director ) & The Clash for Westway to the World

However, the first real public courts have recently opened in the Westway sports centre in London's White City, marking a possible change in fortunes for Eton Fives as a minor sport.

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.

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.

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.

The Westway was built to form a link from Paddington to Ringway 1, the innermost circuit of the London Ringways network, part of a complex and comprehensive plan for a network of high speed roads circling and radiating out from central London designed to manage and control the flow of traffic within the capital.

* 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.

* 06 Jan: The RHD claimed responsibility for a pipe bomb attack on the home of a prison officer at Westway Park, Belfast.

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.

In a later interview for the rockumentary Westway to the World, he apologised about his addiction and speculated that had he not been asked to leave The Clash the band might have lasted longer and might possibly still be together.

This track is such a great groove for driving and it got its name because if I put it on at the Marylebone Road end of the Westway and stuck right on the speed limit, it would finish just as I came off the other end.

Following the demise of Westway, development of the West Side Highway evolved into two parts: a public / private partnership that evolved into the upper piers being used for recreational purposes.

She then wrote for the World Service Soap opera Westway before joining the BBC1 soap opera EastEnders in 2002.