Richard J. wrote:
John Rowland wrote:

Praed St is eastbound-only from Norfolk Place to Edgware Road, so
you can't reach the 2-way part of Praed St from the east without
paying the CC charge. In fact, I have no idea why Praed St west of
Sale Place is excluded from the CC zone, since you can't really use
it to get to or from Paddington.

You can conveniently use it eastbound to leave Paddington to get to
the Edgware Road - Park Lane free route across the CC zone, or to
join the Marylebone Road eastbound.

Not conveniently... there is no left turn from Departures Road to Praed St.
You would have to go right into Praed St, right into Eastbourne Terrace,
then do a U-turn.

The correct CC-free route from Marble Arch to Westway is Edgware
Road - Harrow Road - Bishops Bridge Road - Westbourne Terrace -
Orsett Terrace - Gloucester Terrace - Ranelagh Bridge - Westway.
Even if you were exempt from the CC charge, this is shorter and
faster than any route passing to the immediate south of Paddington.

Or alternatively: Marble Arch - Edgware Road - Sussex Gardens - Sale
Place - Praed Street (eastbound) - Chapel Street - Old Marylebone
Road, and sharp left into Marylebone Road westbound (a useful but
curiously unsignposted way of joining the westbound A40), then over
the flyover on to Westway.

Good one!