Wembley: A406 North Circular Road
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Wembley: A406 North Circular Road by Nigel Cox as part of the Geograph project.
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Wembley: A406 North Circular Road
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 9 Mar 2008
The North Circular Road began life in the 1920s as development spread out through north-west London and it has always been the A406. However in the 1960s the Greater London Council proposed plans to construct a series of high-speed circular and radial motorways throughout London to ease traffic congestion. Under these plans the North Circular Road was designated to become the northern section of a circular route known as Ringway 2, being the second inner of the four proposed Ringways. It was planned that it would eventually be upgraded to a motorway, provisionally designated as the M15. These plans were cancelled in 1973. This view was taken from the footbridge leading to IKEA and Tesco, with the IKEA store on the right.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.551865
Longitude
-0.259092