Brimstone wrote:

Mortimer wrote:
"Brimstone" wrote:
JNugent wrote:
Brimstone wrote:

I used the Westway in both directions yesterday and noticed no
diminuation in traffic capacity compared to their previous status.
In fact the only change I saw was in the designation and numbering
of the road and the consequent alteration in the direction sign
colour.

What is your evidence that there has been any such diminuation? Is
there any point to your ranting other than to poitlessly and
unjustifiably castigate Livingstone?

Have you seen the former M41 (with nearly half the road space
snaffled for other purposes)?

I know of no road, either now nor previously, designated as the
"M41".

It's the short spur (probably only about a mile) from the A40
southwards to Shepherd's Bush roundabout.

I thought it was the A41(M). Thanks for the correction.

There *was* an A41(M) elsewhere - in the line of the A41, bypassing Tring.

It was opened to traffic (IIRC) in the mid-1970s. It too was later
downgraded, along with the plans for a motorway from NW London out
through N Bucks (the same M41 which passed from Shepherds Bush to the
Westway flyoiver). The norhern sretch of that road was presumably
abandoned because of the decision to contruct the M40 through to the
Midlands instead, though a new stretch of A41 was built from the Hemel
area through to somewhere near Aylesbury. The former Tring bypass
motorway was incorprated into it - you can easily tell when you are on
that bit.