M6 Toll - worth it on a Sunday?

[RRS_Staffs]

Hi

I rarely (never) travel up the west side of the country

However either tomorrow or next weekend I have to travel from Warwick to Preston and Im not sure whats the best option

Paying for anything when theres a free alternative grates on me however I have no idea what the motorway system around Birmingham will be like early on a Sunday afternoon

So M6 toll - yay or nay??

Cheers

[mnkiboy]

Nay. Footy's on, everyone will be at home.

Check the traffic on the net just before you set out. Unless there's been a pile up it'll be fine on Sunday afternoon.

[Mr E Driver]

I have a feeling tomorrow afternoon it will be quiet on the roads.

[RRS_Staffs]

LOL good point - Id forgotten about that!

How about next weekend

[birdcage]

if you fancy a 150 mph run tomorrow it could be money well spent

[cheeky_chops]

just check google maps and switch traffic on before you go

Or you could come off M42, past The Belfry, up to A5 to cannock and back onto M6, takes 10 mins longer than M6 clear. I hate paying for the toll, the fact is its gone up from £2 in 2003 to £5 this year. Robbing gits)

[littlebasher]

birdcage said:

if you fancy a 150 mph run tomorrow it could be money well spent

+1

That's one nice piece of road

[Mike 820]

birdcage said:

if you fancy a 150 mph run tomorrow it could be money well spent

Too true, I was doing 70 on it last year and I was the slowest vehicle out there. I swear at one point a milk float went past me!! ha ha

[bull996]

I thought that as it was 2 am I would just use the old M6.

Mistake. Seems they use nights to do repairs and the entire stretch through Brum was a 40 mph.....with a queue of lorries.

Last week at 2 am I used the toll.

[Blown2CV]

Always worth it. The surface going the star city way is shockingly st, and the ridge/join every 25 yards or so is annoying, to me at least.

Pour moi, it is still worth it on a weekend to avoid the higher percentage of st drives that are on the roads at the weekend. Despite there being less cars, I reckon motorways are more dangerous on sat and sun, and would gladly pay to avoid other drivers for at least part of the route. I don't drive that part of the 6 often on a weekend though.

[Hitler Hadrump]

It is worth the money just to spend a few miles pretending you've time travelled to the 1960s. For the full effect, have your Ford Popular simultaneously spin a bearing, overheat and melt a piston the second the speedo reaches 59mph.

Then stop and have a family picnic on the hard shoulder while dozens of people gather on the footbridges to watch.

Edited by Hitler Hadrump on Saturday 26th June 20:53

[SLacKer]

Worth a fiver to get away from the the great unwashed for a while....

Edited by SLacKer on Sunday 27th June 10:34

[corozin]

Frankly considering that most of the M6 between Birmingham and Preston is filled with roadworks I don't think you should waste your money trying to save a few minutes using the toll road.

And this isn't a wind-up. About every 15 miles between those two points there's another set of roadworks - for well over 100 miles. I spent 5 hours getting from Coventry to the Lake District a week ago, and most of it was spent sitting in coned off sections of roadworks with (usually) zero fkers working on any of it.

Take a flash and a book to read. That's my advice.

[Ry_B]

birdcage said:

if you fancy a 150 mph run tomorrow it could be money well spent

First time I got my RX8 to VMAX was on this piece of track around my way called the M6 to-rack

162mph on the speedo, 156 on satnav. One rotary engine revving its' nuts off. Perfectly empty, smooth piece of road. Love it.

[spaceship]

Mike 820 said:

birdcage said:

if you fancy a 150 mph run tomorrow it could be money well spent

Too true, I was doing 70 on it last year and I was the slowest vehicle out there. I swear at one point a milk float went past me!! ha ha

Is there a lack of Police activity on the toll road?

[DaveL86]

I travel down that way so rarely that when I do I can justify going on it just for the sake of it, nice piece of road.

I had cruise on going 70 on the inside lane, a Murcielago went past me so fast I thought it was going to put my windows in once.

[Mattt]

If you get a tag you save 25p a trip! Wow.

[Papa Hotel]

Ry_B said:

birdcage said:

if you fancy a 150 mph run tomorrow it could be money well spent

First time I got my RX8 to VMAX was on this piece of track around my way called the M6 to-rack

162mph on the speedo, 156 on satnav. One rotary engine revving its' nuts off. Perfectly empty, smooth piece of road. Love it.

Bravado or truth...? Either way, what a chump.

Back on topic, the toll is always worth it.

[swanny71]

Papa Hotel said:

Either way, what a chump.

[Hitch78]

Mike 820 said:

birdcage said:

if you fancy a 150 mph run tomorrow it could be money well spent

Too true, I was doing 70 on it last year and I was the slowest vehicle out there. I swear at one point a milk float went past me!! ha ha

But also now subject to lots of high profile Police activity - whilst they don't patrol they now do a lot of speed trap activity; using the bridge at one of the services (last one north most) and having marked and unmarked cars lined up on the slip road to pull over the offenders. Last time I went through there were four or five cars waiting to pursue, and at least seven had pulled over motorists over the next mile or two.

Luckily I'd pulled into the services, I'd been hammering it up until that point but couldn't wait until Hilton Staffs services for the loo!

Edited by Hitch78 on Sunday 27th June 07:22