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	Highways Agency - M6 Toll
		The M6 Toll is a 27 mile long dual three lane motorway bypass in the West Midlands conurbation.
		M6 Toll connects at its northern end with the M6 at a new junction north of junction 11.
		The route the M6 Toll follows is that of the existing road corridors of the A5, A38 and A446 passing through the counties of Staffordshire, West Midlands and Warwickshire connecting at its southern end with the M6 just east of junction 4 at Coleshill.
	www.highways.gov.uk /roads/2848.aspx (337 words)

	National Alliance Against Tolls - M6 Toll Consultation
		Prior to the opening of the M6 toll in December 2003, all the significant road tolls in Britain were on water crossings.
		Toll collection causes delays and queues, and tends to prolong peak periods as traffic is on the road longer than it would otherwise be.
		And of course the effect of tolling would depend upon the amount of the toll, which in the case of the existing M6 Toll is at the discretion of the private operator.
	www.notolls.org.uk /m6consult.htm (0 words)

	Road Traffic Technology - M6 Toll Motorway - United Kingdom
		The M6 Toll Road, which opened in December 2003, is a privately financed project consisting of a six-lane toll motorway providing a by-pass through the busiest section of the M6 in the West Midlands.
		The toll motorway splits from the M6 at junction 4, Coleshill, south-east of Birmingham and south of Sutton Coldfield, and rejoins at junction 11A near Cannock to the north of Birmingham for northbound traffic and vice versa for southbound traffic.
		The M6 Toll motorway is viewed by the government as being of strategic importance to the national transport infrastructure.
	www.roadtraffic-technology.com /projects/m6_toll (883 words)

	M6 (Rugby to Carlisle) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The decision to call the motorway the ``M6 Toll'' was made after the Highways Agency and Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions looked at several options and canvassed the views of key stakeholders.
		``M6 Toll'' emphasises the strategic importance of the BNRR in the national motorway network and makes very clear that it is a toll road.
		There is strong support in the region for ``M6 Toll'' and an endorsement of the BNRR's importance as a strategic through route.
	euclid.colorado.edu /~rmg/roads/m6.html (355 words)

	The M6 Toll Road
		The actual cost of the using the toll road has been rather disingenuously presented to the public as being lower than it is, with drivers being told that it is a 2 GBP charge per car.
		M6 Toll Road use of course affects not just the road users themselves, but those who built the road and are looking to make their profit from the users of it.
		The irony is though, that the M6 Toll Road is likely to be more attractive to commercial users than car drivers, and it is well known that it is the commercial users who are perceived as being those who cause the problems in traffic flow on a motorway.
	www.hippy.freeserve.co.uk /m6tollrd.htm (1564 words)

	For whom the road tolls the M6 Toll Road (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The actual toll charges announced are £3 for cars (£2 for night-time journeys) and £11 for lorries (£10 for night-time journeys), with a discount of £1 on all charges for the first 10 million vehicles to use the road.
		Toll roads such as the Dulles Greenway (which connects Washington DC’s Dulles airport with Leesburg, Virginia) struggled in the early years to attract traffic at levels anywhere near predictions and had to be refinanced.
		It is known that the impact of the M6 Toll Road is one of the factors that the Government will consider (alongside the impact of road charging for lorries, due to be introduced in 2006) before making a decision on whether or not to press ahead with national road user charging.
	www.transport2000.org.uk /news/maintainNewsArticles.asp?NewsArticleID=144 (2446 words)

	The Motorway Archive. M6 Toll Motorway
		The M6 Toll motorway dates back to the early 1980s, when the UK Government identified a need for a scheme to relieve the heavily-congested M6 through the West Midlands conurbation, which, from its opening in 1972, was heavily congested.
		The junction layouts at each end of the scheme were complicated by the concession agreement which made the M6 Toll the 'through route', so that traffic wishing to continue along the M6 had to exit the M6 Toll to rejoin the M6.
		Upstream of the ponds, the M6 Toll drainage combines kerbs, gullies and hollow kerbs; combined surface water and groundwater drains (filter drains); the longitudinal drainage channel (In the central reserve); and ditches.
	www.iht.org /motorway/m6toll.htm (0 words)

	M6 Toll - Overview
		Since the M6 Toll opened in December 2003, it has grown from strength to strength and is recognised to be a key strategic route through the West Midlands.
		The M6 Toll's origins stretch back to 1980, when the government realised for the first time, the need to ease congestion through the West Midlands conurbation.
		The M6 Toll runs from junction 3a on the M6 and arcs around the north-east of the West Midlands conurbation rejoining the M6 at 11a.
	www.m6toll.co.uk /about (0 words)

	The M6 Toll: 12 Months On
		The M6 Toll has never been out of the news for long during the last year and the headlines above are examples of some of the most recent ones.
		Tom Fanning, Managing Director of MEL and chartered surveyor, said the M6 Toll is playing a major role in keeping the region moving; relieving the M6 and cutting congestion across the West Midlands.
		Mr Fanning added that, "Time and again the M6 Toll is quoted by developers and companies as the deciding factor in their decision to invest in the region.
	www.rics.org /Property/Commercialproperty/Commercialpropertymarket/m6toll010405.html (0 words)

	M6 Toll tag (Site not responding. Last check: )
		An M6 Toll tag is an electronic toll collection device attached to a vehicle's windscreen, which records the vehicle's passage through toll plazas on the M6 Toll road, in order to charge an account for use of the M6 Toll.
		All accounts on the M6 Toll are pre-paid, and must contain a positive balance, sufficient to cover the cost of the vehicle's toll, in order for the vehicle to be allowed through the toll gate.
		If the balance of the account cannot cover the cost of the toll, the barrier will remain closed and an alternative method of payment must be used.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/m/m6/m6_toll_tag.html (194 words)

	ABD - M6 Toll etension
		Tolls are also highly unfair because they depend on the lottery of where you live and not on the ability to pay.
		When tolls are introduced it used to be claimed that they would only be short term and that when construction cost was recovered then tolls would go.
		Toll barriers themselves generate costs both in their operation and in the queues that form.
	www.abd.org.uk /local/m6_toll_extension.htm (0 words)

	Highways Agency - M6 Toll Road (formerly Birmingham Northern Relief Road (BNRR))
		The M6 Toll (formerly known as the Birmingham Northern Relief Road) is a 27-mile long dual three-lane motorway bypass of the M6 in the West Midlands conurbation.
		M6 Toll connects at its southern end to the M6 just east of junction 4 at Coleshill.
		Everyone that uses the M6 Toll is required by law to pay the toll unless the necessary exemptions apply (motability or emergency services).
	www.highways.gov.uk /roads/projects/4722.aspx (0 words)

	UK Commission for Integrated Transport \| Road User Charging Worldwide
		The average speed between junctions 4 and 11 of the M6 (the section bypassed by the M6 Toll) was approximately 17mph, producing rush-hour journey times of up to 79 minutes.
		A new M6 Toll Road was built to relieve one of the most congested sections of motorway in Europe.
		Government agrees that before any decisions about whether to proceed with more tolled motorways are taken there is a need to provide more detailed information and to assess full range of potential social, economic and environmental impacts, and the scope for minimising any adverse impacts, as well as maximising the benefits.
	www.cfit.gov.uk /map/europe-uk-m6.htm (659 words)

	M6 toll road is halted by protests and a shortage of funding-News-TimesOnline (Site not responding. Last check: )
		M6 toll road is halted by protests and a shortage of funding-News-TimesOnline
		M6 toll road is halted by protests and a shortage of funding
		The M6 Expressway had been intended to relieve severe congestion on the existing M6, which carries 140,000 vehicles a day and last year topped a poll as the road drivers most hate to use.
	www.timesonline.co.uk /tol/news/article690056.ece (999 words)

	Briefing on M6 Toll Opening
		The M6 Toll was promoted in the 1980s as a public motorway and an Inquiry was held in 1988 which gave permission for a public road to be built.
		The transfer to the toll route (which is less than the transfer from the A5/A38/A446 route) is whittled away to a difference of between and 1% and 4% on the M6 through the conurbation.
		Time gained on the M6 Toll may be lost on other parts of the motorway network because the toll road tends to concentrate more traffic onto other sections of the M6 and the M42.
	www.birminghamfoe.org.uk /bnrr/Toll_opening_briefing.htm (2820 words)

	ABD - M6 Toll
		The toll road operators subsequently had the stupidity to back up the toll booth operator instead of sacking him, and continued to claim the car was not marked as an ambulance despite having blue lights and green chequered stripes.
		The section of the road from the M6 northbound to the M42 (and Junction 9) is free, but it is confusingly sign-posted as 'M6 Toll' causing drivers to think they'll have to pay a toll.
		The M6 Toll is patrolled by CMPG, a joint operation between Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Mercia, and West Midlands Police.
	www.abd.org.uk /local/m6_toll.htm (0 words)

	The M6 Toll (Collection of Tolls) Regulations 2003
		"toll lane area" means the areas of carriageway and the adjacent raised areas, on which the toll-booths are located, between the toll lane entry barrier and the toll lane exit barrier;
		"wide load route" means the carriageway which bypasses the toll lane area and is shown by a sign as being for use by vehicles where the vehicle, its trailer or its load exceeds 2.9m in width at any point along its total length.
		These Regulations apply to the M6 Toll (formerly the Birmingham Northern Relief Road) and relate to the operation of this motorway and the collection of tolls.
	www.opsi.gov.uk /si/si2003/20032186.htm (1767 words)

	CPRE West Midlands - M6 Expressway
		The M6 Expressway, as it is known, would be a toll road and would (according to the Government), provide an alternative to the existing M6.
		Moreover the difference in traffic levels on the M6 in Birmingham and on the many congested roads parallel to the current M6 Toll, compared to the limited congestion on the sections in Staffordshire and Cheshire mean comparisons between the two are unlikely to be valid.
		Instead of new tolled motorways, the Government should be pressing ahead with a scheme of national road user charging which ensures the cost of travel properly reflects the damage it imposes on the countryside and wider environment.
	www.cprewm.org.uk /M6.html (1766 words)

	ePolitix.com - M6 toll road plan abandoned (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The £3bn project to ease congestion by building a new 50-mile toll motorway has been judged to be too expensive and damaging to the environment.
		Transport minister Stephen Ladyman announced that the government is reverting to widening the M6 by an extra lane on either side, instead of building two lanes in each direction parallel to the M6 from junction 11A to 19.
		He said that work to widen the M6 will be complete by 2017 and take up far less land than the expressway.
	www.epolitix.com /EN/News/200607/8dff102a-848e-45d4-9633-a4024be12149.htm (253 words)

	BBC - Birmingham Travel - The new M6 toll road
		The new M6 Toll is a 27 mile, three lane motorway.
		The first 10 million vehicles to use the new M6 Toll benefit from a discount of £1 off standard day and night tolls, Langley Mill toll will be half the launch toll (minimum toll 50p).
		The new M6 Toll will run from junction 4 on the M6 and arc around the north-east of the West Midlands conurbation rejoining the M6 at 11a.
	www.bbc.co.uk /birmingham/travel/m6-toll-rd.shtml (0 words)

	M6 motorway at AllExperts
		The M6 crosses the River Lune at this point and unless the bridge had been made wider, there was no space to build a longer slip road.
		Due to the congested nature of the M6 between Birmingham and Manchester, the UK Government is planning to widen the existing motorway to increase capacity.
		The proposal is to widen the road from a 3 to a 4 lane dual carriageway between junction 11a and junction 19.
	en.allexperts.com /e/m/m/m6_motorway.htm (1098 words)

	National Alliance Against Tolls - M6 Toll
		On 14 June 2005, the daytime toll for cars was increased to £3.50, and the toll for vans and lorries to £7.
		The fact that the old M6 is free and the toll road costs £7 for a hgv encourages all lorries to use the old M6.
		But a new toll road was definitely the worst option, as it would have meant that a large area of countryside would have been wasted on another failed empty toll road.
	www.notolls.org.uk /m6.htm (0 words)

	M6 toll increase no justification says FTA (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The uplift in the toll rate for vans and trucks reinforces the existing position whereby these vehicles are priced off the M6 Toll and on to the M6.
		'It is frustrating to see that the M6 Toll, which forms part of the UK's network of Trade Routes, is under-utilised, whilst the M6 to the north of Birmingham is solid with traffic for long periods of the day.
		M6 Toll should be a route of choice for industry, not just a premium rate congestion bypass for wealthy motorists.'
	www.mhwmagazine.co.uk /bsp/10130/ews.asp?DBID=103-281-013-010&iPage=1&id=4159 (280 words)

	Friends of the Earth: Press Releases: : First Anniversary of M6 Toll Opening (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Today (Thurs 9th) is the first anniversary of the opening of the M6 Toll, Britain's first private toll motorway.
		The M6 Toll anniversary comes only two days after the Welsh Assembly Government announced plans for a toll motorway to relieve the M4 in Gwent.
		The M6 Toll was built to provide an alternative to the existing M6 through the West Midlands conurbation.
	www.foe.org.uk /resource/press_releases/first_anniversary_of_m6_to_08122004.html (324 words)

	M6 Proposed Toll Road
		Traffic congestion is much less severe on this section of the M6 than further south, yet the Government is pressing ahead with a scheme which will generate more traffic, encourage people to travel further and spread the blight of the existing M6 over a wider area of countryside.
		It revealed that traffic on the M6 in Cheshire and Staffordshire was within the capacity of the road.
		Although it eventually recommended widening the M6 to four lanes in each direction, it concluded that it was a matter of 'subjective judgement' whether this would be better than no widening at all.
	www.cprestaffordshire.org.uk /M6Toll.htm (766 words)

	the new m6 toll
		The new M6 motorway toll is due to open in January 2004.
		On acceptance of an application, MEL will issue an M6 Toll Mobility Exemption Pass, which may be presented at any staffed booth on the M6 Toll allowing a fast and convenient means of verification of exemption.
		The toll collector will issue a receipt for payment to you as proof of payment and you will also be provided with a Disabled User Application Form.
	www.disabled-motorist.co.uk /October/m6.php (775 words)

	M6 Toll Road: 17 Jan 2006: House of Commons debates (TheyWorkForYou.com)
		However, one of the problems that the business community in particular complains about is the fact that people cannot go northbound directly off the M54 on to the M6, and there is no direct link, of course, to the M6 toll road.
		In particular, we must know what we are going to do with the M6 before we can finalise the design scheme, so we cannot commit ourselves at this stage, although I repeat that it looks as though there is a strong case.
		Friend has already been engaged in detailed discussions with me about the future of the M6, which is also a matter of great concern to him, so he will understand that there is also a lot of sensitivity about that.
	www.theyworkforyou.com /debates/?id=2006-01-17a.681.3&s=speaker%3A10134 (0 words)

	M6 Toll unease
		There's an incentive (because the duty is now to the directly tolled, not the taxpayer) not to invest in noise baffling or environmental verges or runoff filtering.
		In the long-term there's an incentive to lower the toll to the point where all it pays for is the toll collection infrastructure itself.
		The M6 Toll moves the people who can afford to off the free M6 and provides capacity: the free M6 will end up just as busy as before, but with different people, and the democratic franchise will indeed have expanded, and there will all the good consequences of freer movement as before.
	interconnected.org /notes/2003/12/m6_toll.html (0 words)

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