Hi,
I've got a journey to Silverstone next month and have just run the start and end points through the AA route finder. The journey is quite straightforward, mostly all motoway, but it does say to use the M6 toll road. I've no real problem with using this section of motorway, but ...... do I NEED to use it or is there a toll free alternative and if I use it exactly how much will the toll be ? I expect to be passing through sometime in the wee early hours if this makes any difference.
Thanks in advance,
Oily.
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The toll free alternative is the M6! Google for "M 6 Toll" and you find current info on toll charges etc
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M6 should be reasonably clear in the "wee small hours" so save the money - well worth using the toll during daylight though as the M6 can be a nightmare!!
Cant recall the layout heading south but I do know that heading north you have to filter off for the M6 - the toll is cunningly set as straight on to trap the unwary.
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Going Southbound on the M6 you exit for the Toll Mway at a new exit called 11a - it is a definite turn off the M6. As has been pointed out above, if Northbound you stay on what appears to be the M6 at Junction 3a and get to the toll; you have to trun off down a slip road at 3a to stay on the M6.
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Going Southbound on the M6 you exit for the Toll Mway at a new exit called 11a - it is a definite turn off the M6. As has been pointed out above, if Northbound you stay on what appears to be the M6 at Junction 3a and get to the toll; you have to trun off down a slip road at 3a to stay on the M6.
I'm sure it's the other way around when going Northbound, you keep going straight on for the M6 toll and take the left hand lane for the M6.
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IIRC going both ways the "straight ahead" is the toll road but there is ample opportunity to filter off - if you're that "unwary", then you must be asleep! ;-)
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asleep!!! - lol - let the cruise control, satnav, rev limiter, lane departure warning system, automatic braking system etc do their job while I read a book1
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Be a really good idea to allow an experimental 160kph (100mph) limit on this toll road.
That would prove one way or the other whether increased speeds on suitable sections of motorway are a good thing or a bad thing. Obviously accident stats would have to be related to volumes of traffic before and after the limit was experimentally raised. They are doing exactly this in Austria.
HJ
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I think they may well be doing that already - I've yet to see either any kind of police presence or anyone doing less than 90!
Good idea though.
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I think they may well be doing that already - I've yet to see either any kind of police presence or anyone doing less than 90!
Practically every time I've used it I've seen someone stopped by an unmarked (usually a Volvo S60) police car.
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Oh - is there a speed limit on the M6 toll - didnt appear to be so when I last used it.....
Toodle Pip
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HJ,
I say this in all seriousness....... why don't you formally suggest this to the powers that be e.g. Transport Minister & ensure a bit of publicity goes with it....
The good old motorists doesn't really have much support nowadays, as the AA is only interested in selling you insurance etc.
Or would the Telegraph group be unimpressed with this?
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Whenever I have used the toll has been virtually empty - at least by "normal" motorway standards. Surface is good so no real reason why the limit shouldn't be increased. Would probably lead to a dramatic increase in revenue if the "hot hatch" brigade had somewhere legal to try out those Citroen Saxos with Nitrous and superchargers too, well worth £3 or so.
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In response to westpig, Dr Stephen Ladyman did pay a lot of attention to the issue of sideswiping by LHD trucks and has got the EC Directive on this modified to include all trucks new or old over 3.5tonnes GVW throughout the EC, but not until Janaury 2008. I don't think he could do anything about an experimental raised limit on the M6 Toll. Though he would probably be sympathetic it would not be a politically correct move because there is a possibility that a case for higher speed limits could be proven. The control freaks don't want that because it would reduce a major source of their income.
HJ
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.... use the M6 toll road. I've no real problem with using this section of motorway, but ......
See www.m6toll.co.uk/default.asp?mainmenuid=1
If you use it then of course you have to pay , but which booth to go to?
Their signage en route is useless for this. There is none but plenty telling you the charges.
see www.m6toll.co.uk/pricing/howtopay.asp?mainmenuid=4
Else you arrive at the plaza trying to work out what the clever signs mean and at the same time trying to select the required lane while all the regulars ignore the 30mph limit a whizz round the strangers.
I enquired about the signage being rubbish. The reply was "Oh we used to have some A signs but not now"
Brilliant!!!
You can get a free credit sized fold up guide from the booths. It has a good map .
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Thanks all,
it seems the charges ain't too high so I might give it a go anyway ....... it'll depend on whether or not I get "caught out" by the signage I suppose.
Oily.
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There are currently TWO sets of roadworks on the M6 between the ends of the toll road and both have speed cameras, also once committed there are even fewer diversion routes than normal as some ju8nctions are closed due to the works.
That stretch of the M6 is never quiet, as volumes drop less uses the toll road.
If you have time to spare use the M6, if you want to be sure when you get to the other end use the toll - reduced rate at night as well.
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Going north you do not join the toll road until Junction 9 of the M42 where the Toll Road and M42 separate but having got that far it is a pain in the neck to get back to the M6.
Where the M6 and Toll road separate there is an un-tolled link to the M42 north - works for M42 south to M6 as well and is much faster than the A446 past Coleshill.
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