A6030 road

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The A6030 is a small section of road in Leicester linking the A563 near Hamilton and the A6 near Oadby.

Starting in the south, at the junction with the A6 in Oadby it heads northwards passing Leicestershire Golf Course and the Leicester General Hospital on the right. At the junction with the A47 it continues as The Portwey/Tailby Avenue, here the road effectively TOTSO's off to the north heading towards the A563 in Hamilton.

The section of road between Gipsy Lane and the A563 has recently been built to make it easier for traffic to get to Oadby and the A6, otherwise they would have had to use the unfinished A563 to get to Oadby. The small section of road between Red Hill Circle and the A607 still has the 'A6030' road name but the rest of the old road has been downgraded.

The A6030 was meant to be the eastern half of the A563 at one stage. At its north-west end, where the A6030 effectively turns off to the north, there is a nice strip of land as far as the railway line (which has now had a housing estate with cul-de-sacs built on it, you can still see where the road would have gone). The A6030 would then have obliterated Canon Street and Ratcliffe Street, continued West over the River Soar, lining up with Corporation Road and then Beaumont Leys Lane. This would then have curved, approximating the later line of Strasbourg Drive, to line up perfectly with the western half of the A563.

	A roads in Zone 6 of the Great Britain road numbering system	edit
A6	A60 - A61 - A62 - A63 - A64 - A65 - A66 - A67 - A68 - A69
	A602 - A605 - A614 - A625 - A630 - A635
	A638 - A647 - A666 - A684 - A685 - A686 - A689 - A690 - A696
	A6030 - A6055 - A6079 - A6182
	List of A roads in Zone 6