page_title: A40 road in London
section_title: Part of a larger plan
hierarchical_section_title: A40 road in London / Part of a larger plan
caption_attribution_description: English: London Motorway Box scheme from the mid 1960s showing roads planned for Ringway 1, indicating those roads that were built.DavidCane 14:28, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
context_page_description: The A40 is a major trunk road connecting London to Fishguard, Wales. The A40 in London passes through seven London Boroughs: the City of London, Camden, Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea, Hammersmith & Fulham, Ealing and Hillingdon, to meet the M40 motorway junction 1 at Denham, Buckinghamshire.
  The road has been re-routed several times in the last 100 years – part of the route of the London section of the A40 was laid out in the 1920s and 1930s when Western Avenue was built – now most of it is grade-separated, dual carriageway. In the 1960s Westway was constructed, easing traffic access to and from the centre of the city. The A40 links the City of London and the West End to the M40 motorway and M25 motorway. The route is called The London to Fishguard Trunk Road in legal documents and acts.
context_section_description: The West Cross Route in The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the Hammersmith and Fulham borough, was formerly the M41 motorway, part of the innermost circuit of the London Ringways network – a complex and comprehensive plan for a network of high-speed roads circling central London.  Designed to manage and control the flow of traffic within the capital, the road would have run from Battersea to Harlesden and would have paralleled the National Rail West London Line as an elevated road.
  Opening in 1970, together with Westway, it runs north-south between the northern elevated roundabout junction with the western end of the Westway (A40) and the southern Holland Park Roundabout.
  In 2000 its status was downgraded to an A-road – a short, 0.75 miles (1.21 km) dual carriageway section of the A3220.
caption: Plan of the London Motorway Box scheme from mid-1960s showing the West Cross Route as built and as planned
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