Isisbridge

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Posted: 09 Oct 2014


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uninspiring gateway to London

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hidden-london.com/gazetteer/westway

Begun in 1964, the Westway was conceived as a solution to congestion caused by the absence of a link between central London and the interwar Western Avenue...

The Greater London Council forced this state-of-the-art highway through the North Kensington area amidst allegations of Soviet-style disregard for the effects on the local population. Angry protests greeted Michael Heseltine, then Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Transport, when he opened the Westway in July 1970, and the GLC was forced to rehouse some residents living adjacent to the road.
7 years ago.

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