Hanger Lane Gyratory on the North Circular - geograph

The

Hanger Lane Hanger Lane is a major road in Ealing, London, England. The majority of the road forms the westernmost part of the A406 North Circular Road, running north from the A4020 Uxbridge Road at Ealing Common to the A40 Western Avenue at the Hanger Lan ...

gyratory is a multi-lane rectangular gyratory – having the Hanger Lane underpass, under its southern limb, for the Western Avenue ( A40). It enables intersection with the

North Circular The North Circular Road (officially the A406 and sometimes known as simply the North Circular) is a ring road around Central London in England. It runs from Chiswick in the west to Woolwich in the east via suburban North London, connecting ...

(A406) and the inceptive Ealing Road towards

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. It is in the north of the borough of Ealing in west

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Scope and interior

It covers about . At rush hour it carries nearly 10,000 vehicles per hour. An above-ground section of the

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Central line passes under the structure which takes the form of a rounded-corner rectangular roundabout. The south-east corner of its interior hosts

Hanger Lane tube station Hanger Lane is a London Underground station in Hanger Hill, Ealing, on the border between West and Northwest London. It is located on the West Ruislip branch of the Central line (London Underground), Central line, between Perivale tube station, ...

accessed by paths beneath; the rest hosts small utility buildings and a nature reserve which has many mature, deciduous trees – a

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History

Map of Middlesex Sheet 016, Ordnance Survey, 1868-1883

In the 1960s, a long tunnel was built to take the

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underneath the Hanger Lane junction. The junction became a

gyratory A roundabout is a type of circular intersection or junction in which road traffic is permitted to flow in one direction around a central island, and priority is typically given to traffic already in the junction.''The New Shorter Oxford En ...

in the early 1980s when the western side of the loop was built. In December 2007 it was named Britain's scariest junction. Before its tunnelling cost was approved, the

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railway was to cause a remodelling of the gyratory. but in April 2013 it was decided to put this section of HS2 in a bored tunnel instead due to the cost of rebuilding the gyratory system.

References

External links

Light hearted description of the junction
on

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Picture and description
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