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20 May 2014, 10:15 PM
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I bloody hate the m6 and always use A roads if I can, but I did try the toll road the other week and it was surprisingly pleasant!!
I went to Tamworth and it was £4.80 one way and £5.50 coming back but certainly worth it to have hardly anyone around and a chance of actually getting somewhere instead of sitting in a traffic jam.
Saying that, the southbound carriageway was blocked as I was coming back up north, somewhere near stoke.
It was bank holiday Monday though so 10x cretins around.
I went to Tamworth and it was £4.80 one way and £5.50 coming back but certainly worth it to have hardly anyone around and a chance of actually getting somewhere instead of sitting in a traffic jam.
Saying that, the southbound carriageway was blocked as I was coming back up north, somewhere near stoke.
It was bank holiday Monday though so 10x cretins around.
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21 May 2014, 07:10 AM
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No it doesn't. Roadworks start at Junc 13 long before the toll junction.
The M6 is a joke there right now.
'Installing managed motorway'
is a pseudonym for
'Here's 20 miles of 50mph limit for at least 3 years with average speed cameras installed and maybe we'll put three people to work on it on a good day one of whom has to have a ten year old cute kid whose picture can go on the sign saying "Please drive carefully as my Dad works here" but should read "Please drive carefully as my Dad occasionally turns up here and leans on his spade for half an hour sucking his teeth and looking disinterested, but can you still average at least 60mph so we can have yet more of your money" oh and don't forget we will only be working the first Monday of every month with an 'm' in it as we don't want to overdo it!'
The M6 is a joke there right now.
'Installing managed motorway'
is a pseudonym for
'Here's 20 miles of 50mph limit for at least 3 years with average speed cameras installed and maybe we'll put three people to work on it on a good day one of whom has to have a ten year old cute kid whose picture can go on the sign saying "Please drive carefully as my Dad works here" but should read "Please drive carefully as my Dad occasionally turns up here and leans on his spade for half an hour sucking his teeth and looking disinterested, but can you still average at least 60mph so we can have yet more of your money" oh and don't forget we will only be working the first Monday of every month with an 'm' in it as we don't want to overdo it!'
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21 May 2014, 07:36 AM
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Uh oh, the upper-middle class of Scoobynet is awake 
Painfully true .. although you spelt "occasionally" wrong, which isn't like you 
No it doesn't. Roadworks start at Junc 13 long before the toll junction.
The M6 is a joke there right now.
'Installing managed motorway'
is a pseudonym for
'Here's 20 miles of 50mph limit for at least 3 years with average speed cameras installed and maybe we'll put three people to work on it on a good day one of whom has to have a ten year old cute kid whose picture can go on the sign saying "Please drive carefully as my Dad works here" but should read "Please drive carefully as my Dad occaisonally turns up here and leans on his spade for half an hour sucking his teeth and looking disinterested, but can you still average at least 60mph so we can have yet more of your money" oh and don't forget we will only be working the first Monday of every month with an 'm' in it as we don't want to overdo it!'
The M6 is a joke there right now.
'Installing managed motorway'
is a pseudonym for
'Here's 20 miles of 50mph limit for at least 3 years with average speed cameras installed and maybe we'll put three people to work on it on a good day one of whom has to have a ten year old cute kid whose picture can go on the sign saying "Please drive carefully as my Dad works here" but should read "Please drive carefully as my Dad occaisonally turns up here and leans on his spade for half an hour sucking his teeth and looking disinterested, but can you still average at least 60mph so we can have yet more of your money" oh and don't forget we will only be working the first Monday of every month with an 'm' in it as we don't want to overdo it!'
21 May 2014, 09:19 AM
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21 May 2014, 10:12 AM
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Great bit of road. Lovely surface and well maintained. Makes me laugh theres services though - they must be the worst frequented services in the UK due to the reduced traffic.
IMHO they should make the M25 Junction 10 to 16 a toll, that would keep people off it and perhaps turn it back into a useful road rather than having to zigzag up to the M40 because its a daily car park.
IMHO they should make the M25 Junction 10 to 16 a toll, that would keep people off it and perhaps turn it back into a useful road rather than having to zigzag up to the M40 because its a daily car park.
21 May 2014, 11:39 AM
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Great bit of road. Lovely surface and well maintained. Makes me laugh theres services though - they must be the worst frequented services in the UK due to the reduced traffic.
IMHO they should make the M25 Junction 10 to 16 a toll, that would keep people off it and perhaps turn it back into a useful road rather than having to zigzag up to the M40 because its a daily car park.
IMHO they should make the M25 Junction 10 to 16 a toll, that would keep people off it and perhaps turn it back into a useful road rather than having to zigzag up to the M40 because its a daily car park.
21 May 2014, 07:38 PM
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No it doesn't. Roadworks start at Junc 13 long before the toll junction.
The M6 is a joke there right now.
'Installing managed motorway'
is a pseudonym for
'Here's 20 miles of 50mph limit for at least 3 years with average speed cameras installed and maybe we'll put three people to work on it on a good day one of whom has to have a ten year old cute kid whose picture can go on the sign saying "Please drive carefully as my Dad works here" but should read "Please drive carefully as my Dad occasionally turns up here and leans on his spade for half an hour sucking his teeth and looking disinterested, but can you still average at least 60mph so we can have yet more of your money" oh and don't forget we will only be working the first Monday of every month with an 'm' in it as we don't want to overdo it!'
The M6 is a joke there right now.
'Installing managed motorway'
is a pseudonym for
'Here's 20 miles of 50mph limit for at least 3 years with average speed cameras installed and maybe we'll put three people to work on it on a good day one of whom has to have a ten year old cute kid whose picture can go on the sign saying "Please drive carefully as my Dad works here" but should read "Please drive carefully as my Dad occasionally turns up here and leans on his spade for half an hour sucking his teeth and looking disinterested, but can you still average at least 60mph so we can have yet more of your money" oh and don't forget we will only be working the first Monday of every month with an 'm' in it as we don't want to overdo it!'
21 May 2014, 09:39 PM
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No it doesn't. Roadworks start at Junc 13 long before the toll junction.
The M6 is a joke there right now.
'Installing managed motorway'
is a pseudonym for
'Here's 20 miles of 50mph limit for at least 3 years with average speed cameras installed and maybe we'll put three people to work on it on a good day one of whom has to have a ten year old cute kid whose picture can go on the sign saying "Please drive carefully as my Dad works here" but should read "Please drive carefully as my Dad occasionally turns up here and leans on his spade for half an hour sucking his teeth and looking disinterested, but can you still average at least 60mph so we can have yet more of your money" oh and don't forget we will only be working the first Monday of every month with an 'm' in it as we don't want to overdo it!'
The M6 is a joke there right now.
'Installing managed motorway'
is a pseudonym for
'Here's 20 miles of 50mph limit for at least 3 years with average speed cameras installed and maybe we'll put three people to work on it on a good day one of whom has to have a ten year old cute kid whose picture can go on the sign saying "Please drive carefully as my Dad works here" but should read "Please drive carefully as my Dad occasionally turns up here and leans on his spade for half an hour sucking his teeth and looking disinterested, but can you still average at least 60mph so we can have yet more of your money" oh and don't forget we will only be working the first Monday of every month with an 'm' in it as we don't want to overdo it!'
Yeah, I had to go through that bank holiday Monday. Was really busy but still preferable to the other road which probably would have been at standstill.
21 May 2014, 11:13 PM
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I've had some entertaining duels from the toll booths over the years with various German and Italian whips. First to the speed limit sign wins!
I am aware the police patrol it and look out for people speeding but it's generally very quiet at night.
I am aware the police patrol it and look out for people speeding but it's generally very quiet at night.
22 May 2014, 08:33 AM
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22 May 2014, 10:15 AM
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If you're going 80-85 you're unlikely go get a pull, Me and a nowt mate in a van were coming back from down South and he got clocked at 91mph, The copper said if he was doing 80-85 he wouldn't have stopped him, All subjective really as I suppose it depends on the copper .
23 May 2014, 10:37 AM
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07 December 2014, 12:36 PM
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can anyone shed any light.. my trip will be from Manchester to Birmingham NEC more than likely so how much am I looking at Toll wise? (Saturday)
07 December 2014, 12:41 PM
#26
Let me google that for you:
http://www.m6toll.co.uk/pricing/
£4.80 each way in a car on Saturday 6:00 to 23:00
Unless you are traveling at busy times or some yampy idiots are causing a mess on the M6, for the sakes of few minutes it saves I'd just leave earlier and save the fiver for beer money. In my opinion of course...if you do it more than once try it both ways via the toll and not via the Toll and time it.
You'll be stuck in traffic at the NEC motorway junction anyway as they are messing about with roadworks on the roundabout (unless they've finished it now, bloody well hope so, its been going on long enough with nutty diversions to nowhere)
http://www.m6toll.co.uk/pricing/
£4.80 each way in a car on Saturday 6:00 to 23:00
Unless you are traveling at busy times or some yampy idiots are causing a mess on the M6, for the sakes of few minutes it saves I'd just leave earlier and save the fiver for beer money. In my opinion of course...if you do it more than once try it both ways via the toll and not via the Toll and time it.
You'll be stuck in traffic at the NEC motorway junction anyway as they are messing about with roadworks on the roundabout (unless they've finished it now, bloody well hope so, its been going on long enough with nutty diversions to nowhere)
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07 December 2014, 12:46 PM
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re: roadworks, I mean this: http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/roa...6-improvement/
Should be finished next week. Bet it isn't
Should be finished next week. Bet it isn't
07 December 2014, 01:00 PM
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Let me google that for you:
http://www.m6toll.co.uk/pricing/
£4.80 each way in a car on Saturday 6:00 to 23:00
Unless you are traveling at busy times or some yampy idiots are causing a mess on the M6, for the sakes of few minutes it saves I'd just leave earlier and save the fiver for beer money. In my opinion of course...if you do it more than once try it both ways via the toll and not via the Toll and time it.
You'll be stuck in traffic at the NEC motorway junction anyway as they are messing about with roadworks on the roundabout (unless they've finished it now, bloody well hope so, its been going on long enough with nutty diversions to nowhere)
http://www.m6toll.co.uk/pricing/
£4.80 each way in a car on Saturday 6:00 to 23:00
Unless you are traveling at busy times or some yampy idiots are causing a mess on the M6, for the sakes of few minutes it saves I'd just leave earlier and save the fiver for beer money. In my opinion of course...if you do it more than once try it both ways via the toll and not via the Toll and time it.
You'll be stuck in traffic at the NEC motorway junction anyway as they are messing about with roadworks on the roundabout (unless they've finished it now, bloody well hope so, its been going on long enough with nutty diversions to nowhere)
07 December 2014, 01:01 PM
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Should add that M6 traffic on Saturdays and Sundays is a bit unpredictable.
Recently I went to Bolton on the M6 and flew there, but got caught in heavy build up/congestion on the way back home, I think mainly from middle lane and outer lane hogs which is more rife at weekends (desk driver's day off). I got bored of the stop/go traffic and was in no particular hurry so ended up getting off at Stafford and tanking it down the A449 which was oddly empty
Obviously not much good to you as its not the quickest route during clear times, but its handy to know if you get stuck in a grid lock on the M6 heading South, North of Stafford (which is miles before the Toll road) , you can get off on the A449 and take the A5 and then onto the Toll road there ( or carry on and take the A38 towards Castle Vale (back end of NEC) ).
During weekdays its a lot more predictable.
Recently I went to Bolton on the M6 and flew there, but got caught in heavy build up/congestion on the way back home, I think mainly from middle lane and outer lane hogs which is more rife at weekends (desk driver's day off). I got bored of the stop/go traffic and was in no particular hurry so ended up getting off at Stafford and tanking it down the A449 which was oddly empty
Obviously not much good to you as its not the quickest route during clear times, but its handy to know if you get stuck in a grid lock on the M6 heading South, North of Stafford (which is miles before the Toll road) , you can get off on the A449 and take the A5 and then onto the Toll road there ( or carry on and take the A38 towards Castle Vale (back end of NEC) ).
During weekdays its a lot more predictable.
Last edited by ALi-B; 07 December 2014 at 01:04 PM.
07 December 2014, 01:16 PM
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Should add that M6 traffic on Saturdays and Sundays is a bit unpredictable.
Recently I went to Bolton on the M6 and flew there, but got caught in heavy build up/congestion on the way back home, I think mainly from middle lane and outer lane hogs which is more rife at weekends (desk driver's day off). I got bored of the stop/go traffic and was in no particular hurry so ended up getting off at Stafford and tanking it down the A449 which was oddly empty
Obviously not much good to you as its not the quickest route during clear times, but its handy to know if you get stuck in a grid lock on the M6 heading South, North of Stafford (which is miles before the Toll road) , you can get off on the A449 and take the A5 and then onto the Toll road there ( or carry on and take the A38 towards Castle Vale (back end of NEC) ).
During weekdays its a lot more predictable.
Recently I went to Bolton on the M6 and flew there, but got caught in heavy build up/congestion on the way back home, I think mainly from middle lane and outer lane hogs which is more rife at weekends (desk driver's day off). I got bored of the stop/go traffic and was in no particular hurry so ended up getting off at Stafford and tanking it down the A449 which was oddly empty
Obviously not much good to you as its not the quickest route during clear times, but its handy to know if you get stuck in a grid lock on the M6 heading South, North of Stafford (which is miles before the Toll road) , you can get off on the A449 and take the A5 and then onto the Toll road there ( or carry on and take the A38 towards Castle Vale (back end of NEC) ).
During weekdays its a lot more predictable.