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Euston Road is an important thoroughfare in central London, England, and forms part of the A501. It was originally the central section of the New Road from Paddington to Islington, opened in 1756, London's first bypass, through the fields to the north of London, now generally regarded as being in central London. The road runs from west to east from Marylebone Road to Pentonville Road. It meets the northern end of Tottenham Court Road at a large junction where there is an underpass. ==History of the New Road== The New Road was enabled by an act of Parliament passed in 1756. Construction began in May that year, and it was open to traffic by September.〔 It was intended to provide a new drovers' road for herding sheep and cattle to Smithfield Market, and so it terminated at Islington at St John's Street. It also provided a quicker route for army units to reach the Essex coast when there was a threat of invasion, without passing through the Cities of London and Westminster. Building of the road was opposed by the Duke of Bedford as it cut off his estate in what is now Bloomsbury from the countryside. A clause in the act of 1756 stipulated that no buildings should be constructed within of the road, with the result that most of the houses along it lay behind substantial gardens. During the nineteenth century this regulation was increasingly ignored.〔 In 1837 Euston Station opened on the north side. The Dukes of Grafton had become the main property owners in the area and, in 1857, the central section of the road, between Osnaburgh Street and Kings Cross, was renamed Euston Road after Euston Hall, their country house. The eastern section became Pentonville Road, the western Marylebone Road.〔 The full length of the road was dug up to allow for the construction beneath it of the Metropolitan Railway. The area around the junction with Tottenham Court Road suffered significant bomb damage during the Second World War. Under the Greater London Plan of Patrick Abercrombie, the road was widened. In 1960-1 major modifications resulted in the destruction of the entrance to Euston Station and the construction of the underpass at the junction with Tottenham Court Road. During the 1960s, office developments grew up around this junction, including the Euston Tower skyscraper that now forms part of Regent's Place. Euston Tower attracted a number of significant tenants, most notably the former ITV broadcaster Thames Television, which had its corporate headquarters and a number of studios there from 1970 to 1992, and Capital Radio. The road is on the edge of the London congestion charge zone, which means that users are not charged for using it, but are charged if they turn south into the zone. The road approximately marks the northern boundary of Travelcard Zone 1 of Transport for London. In popular culture, the street is referenced as a property in the United Kingdom edition of the board game Monopoly, which features famous London areas on its gameboard, it is a part of the pale blue set, including Pentonville Road and the only space named after a building The Angel, Islington 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Euston Road」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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