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	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 (882 words)

	M6 motorway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The M6 motorway is the longest motorway in England and the United Kingdom.
		It is often claimed to be the busiest motorway in the country, although the M25 may also lay claim to this dubious distinction, depending on the measurement used.
		From the M1 to the M6 Toll split near Birmingham, the M6 is part of the unsigned E-road E24.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/M6_motorway (992 words)

	M6 motorway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The M6 is often nicknamed "The Backbone of Britain" as it forms part of the central road corridor between Glasgow and London, connecting the industrial North of the UK to its financial and governmental heart in the South East.
		The first section of the motorway, and indeed the first motorway in the country, near Preston, was opened by then Prime Minister Harold Macmillan on December 5,1958.
		The section of the M6 which runs over Shap Fell in Cumbria is 320 m above sea level, one of the highest points at which any motorway in the UK runs.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /M6 (491 words)

	M6 motorway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The first section of the motorway, and indeed the first motorway in the country, the Preston by-pass, was opened by the then Prime Minister Harold Macmillan on December 5,1958.
		The section of the M6 which runs over Shap Fell in Cumbria is 320m above sea level, one of the highest points on any motorway in the UK.
		Throughout we use northbound and southbound although the motorway is closer to running east-west at its beginning.
	www.elpasoderobles.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/M6_motorway (575 words)

	The M6 Motorway in Cumbria
		The M6 motorway is the longest motorway in the United Kingdom.
		The Roman road is clearly visible from the motorway on the opposite side of the Lune on the western flanks of the Howgill Fells.
		The M6 and the Lowgill Viaduct (from the B6257)
	www.visitcumbria.com /m6.htm (2345 words)

	LMARS - M6 and M55 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		And thus, the M6 was born, numbered as such because it connected the A6 to the A6, and a continous number was required as to not confuse motorists.
		Eventually, traffic on the new M6 got worse as the motorway was extended southwards in the early 1960s (the gap between Junction 32 and 33 opened in 1965), and had to be widened to three lanes each way (although provision was made for this in the form of a wide central reservation).
		The motorway had severe congestion due to an earlier accident (and the fact it was rush hour), so I took the oppurtunity to get a photo of the 1974 M55 confirmation sign.
	www.lmars.co.uk /images/pages/motorways.html (2020 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.
		This complex section was heavily constrained by existing motorway links, local roads, and structures that had to be retained, as well as rivers and railways, and the proximity of residential properties.
		At the motorway drainage outfalls, a total of 28 balancing ponds were built to limit or attenuate the discharge to adjacent watercourses.
	www.iht.org /motorway/m6toll.htm (2888 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Motorway traffic up 4% on 2003
		Motorway traffic rose by an estimated 4% during April, May and June 2004 compared with the same period in 2003.
		The next busiest motorways were the M60 around Manchester, the M1, M27 between Southampton and Portsmouth, M6 south of Manchester, and M62 east of the Pennines.
		The building of the M6 Toll followed recommendations by transport consultants to the government at the beginning of 2002 to widen the M6 motorway to four lanes in both directions.
	news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/3558822.stm (562 words)

	Reference for M6 motorway - Search.com
		It is often claimed to be the busiest motorway in the country, although the M25 may also lay claim to this dubious distinction, depending on the measurement used.
		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.
	www.search.com /reference/M6_motorway (1870 words)

	The Motorway Archive. M6 through Westmorland
		For the first time on a motorway project, a meteorological study was, therefore, undertaken to judge the effects of wind, low temperature, snow and reduced visibility on traffic using the alternative routes.
		In carrying out the design, great care was taken to fit the motorway to the landscape, and the designers found that the motorway alignment standards were particularly suited to the terrain, which mean that North-bound traffic would encounter long climbs along certain lengths and desirable constant gradients were achieved in all of these.
		The A685 was on the line of the M6, and had to be diverted up-hill to the West as an initial task prior to the construction of the motorway itself.
	www.iht.org /motorway/m6westm.htm (2245 words)

	M6 Proposed Toll Road
		This has led to some reduction in traffic on the M6 but congestion remains endemic and the longer term predictions from the Public Inquiry are that traffic volumes will return to their original level (roughly 169,000 vehicles per day) once the whole system had settled down.
		It would be likely to be a four lane motorway with hard shoulders, but it would have fewer junctions than the M6, perhaps one at each end and one at Stoke, all with toll booths and toll plazas.
		If this toll road were built, other motorways such as the M42 and M25 could soon follow suit creating a toll motorway network parallel to the existing motorways, adding to congestion in our towns and cities everywhere, undermining the Government commitments on Climate Change and wrecking vast areas of the English countryside.
	www.cprestaffordshire.org.uk /M6Toll.htm (1831 words)

	M6 Motorway Toll Road, Britains first paying motorway. Opened on Tuesday 9th December 2003
		This stretch of motorway is 27 miles long and runs from Junction 4 to Junction 11 of the M6.
		The building of this 27 mile long motorway is not without controversy and the route it takes has cut through part of the regions precious green belt.
		The motorway is not immediately open at all entrance and exit points although this will take place over the coming weeks and new signage will provide details of the alternative route to motorists.
	www.birminghamuk.com /M6tollroad.htm (388 words)

	M5 motorway - Psychology Central (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The M5 motorway was later extended, in the late 1960s / early 1970s, northwards from Junction 4 and Frankley service area was built.
		It was also extended southwards in the late 1960s to mid 1970s and the new motorway extension passed over the top of the original trumpet junction, which was then converted into a complete roundabout, now Junction 8.
		Beyond that are the split-level carriageways, as the motorway climbs the sides of the hills above the Gordano valley, between Portishead and Clevedon.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/M5_motorway (661 words)

	M6 Timeline
		The Preston Bypass opened as Britain's first motorway on 5th December 1958, it ran off the A6 just north of Fulwood round the east of Preston to a junction with the A59, before turning slightly westward to rejoin the A6 near to the A49 junction near Bamber Bridge.
		May 1972 saw the final link in the M6 chain as the tiny gap was closed just north of Birmingham between the A453 and the A38, it was now possible to travel from Carlisle to London entirely by Motorway.
		M6 Motorway:- M6 Motorway, Route of the M6, M6 Timeline, M6 Junctions...
	www.route6.co.uk /m6timeline.html (907 words)

	UK Commission for Integrated Transport \| Road User Charging Worldwide
		A new M6 Toll Road was built to relieve one of the most congested sections of motorway in Europe.
		M6T is a privately financed and operated three-lane motorway that bypasses the busiest section of the M6 through Birmingham, providing a link from the M6 north of Birmingham to the M42 east of Birmingham.
		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)

	Ramp Metering E-mail
		The first UK trials of ramp metering took place at a single site on the M6 motorway near Birmingham in the late 1980s and were very successful, showing benefits that would pay for the cost of installing the system within a couple of years.
		Although the M6 signals remained on the motorway throughout the '90s they were little used and were eventually switched off because the control computer was not y2k compliant.
		A review of the M6 trials indicated that the failure to confirm the business case resulted from the high cost of the infrastructure, complex algorithm, central computers, data transmission and the use of long greens limiting the effectiveness of control.
	www.ajfroggie.com /roads/rampmeter2.htm (751 words)

	M6 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		M6 Toll, a toll motorway in the United Kingdom that relieves traffic on the M6 motorway
		M6 (Ireland), a motorway-grade section of the N6 road in the Republic of Ireland
		M6 bayonet, a bayonet for the M14 rifle
	www.adorons.com /wiki/M6 (263 words)

	M6 Motorway [EBRD - Environmental Impact Assessment]
		The project consists of the financing of the M6 Motorway on a design-build-finance-operate basis (DBFO) under a Public-Private Partnership scheme (“PPP”).
		The M6 Motorway will be based on Availability Payments under which the Hungarian Government will pay the concessionaire for providing it with an operational motorway according to pre-set performance criteria.
		The Client is M6 Duna Autópálya Koncessziós Részvénytársaság Rt., a single purpose company organised in Hungary to undertake the finance, construction and operation of the M6 Motorway after a successful tender for the concession by the Consortium led by Bilfinger Berger BOT GmbH (Germany), Porr Infrastruktur GmbH (Austria) and Swietelsky International Bau GmbH (Austria).
	www.ebrd.com /projects/eias/35264.htm (289 words)

	BBC - Stoke & Staffordshire - Travel - More motorway for Staffordshire?
		Following the building of the M6 Toll, the fact that the M6 is most busy thoroughfare in Europe, and that Staffordshire thus has three motorways passing through it (the other is the M54), not surprisingly his conclusion is not shared by everyone.
		Motorways linking New York with Philadelphia have been six lanes in each direction for well over twenty years, it is time that Britain learnt a lesson from her former colony.
		The long term delays with the D500 and problems with the M6 have led to a great increase of traffic using "A" roads which were not really constructed for HGV's and so called "Road Trains" and Staffordshire Council seems deaf to the concerns of the public when they voice their opinion regarding this.
	www.bbc.co.uk /stoke/content/articles/2006/01/26/m6_widening_debate_feature.shtml (3133 words)

	Highways Agency - M6 Jct 6 - 5 and 8 - 9 Major Roadworks Birmingham
		As a result, traffic management restrictions on the M6 have been removed with the slip road from the M6 onto the A38(M) at junction 6 opened on Monday 20 November.
		Improvements to the slip road from the A38 (M) onto the M6 going north at Junction 6 which provides a longer distance for traffic from the centre of Birmingham to merge with the traffic on the M6 Improvements to the white lining on the slip road from the A38 (M) onto the M6 going south.
		Additional Works between M6 J5 and J6 Whilst working on the northbound carriageway adjacent to J6 we identified that additional work needed to be undertaken to stop further deterioration of the adjoining road surface.
	www.highways.gov.uk /roads/projects/10291.aspx (546 words)

	Roads Review - what role for trunk roads in England? - consultation paper (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The busiest stretch of motorway in the North West is the M62 north of Manchester.
		The motorway is to be in cutting over the central section and to pass beneath the M56 and the A556.
		The scheme's objectives are to provide a motorway to motorway link which has capacity to meet predicted traffic growth and to enhance the environment of the local communities and improve safety along the existing A556 by the reduction in trunk road traffic.
	www.dft.gov.uk /stellent/groups/dft_roads/documents/page/dft_roads_504919-07.hcsp (3700 words)

	LMARS - M6 Toll (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The youngest motorway we have, the M6 Toll motorway which bypasses the most notorious strech of motorway in the UK (other than the M25), the M6 Midland Link, has been attacked by anti-roads groups because it runs through green-belt land and attacked by motorists because it carries a pay-to-use charge.
		Unwary drivers will be shunted onto the M6 Toll by default if they're not careful, so make sure you're in the middle two lanes if you'd rather see Gravelly Hill interchange and lots of concrete rather than some fields.
		Not accessible unless you leave the motorway to trek across to the M54...
	www.lmars.co.uk /images/pages/m6toll.html (469 words)

	ViaMichelin Magazine
		At the end of last year, the motorway companies had already issued some 927,000 electronic tags and the symbolic million mark will be reached any moment now.
		A 27 mile, three lane motorway, the M6 Toll has cut journey times through the West Midlands as it bypasses the most congested parts of the M6.
		Its success means a second tolled motorway is due to start construction at the end of 2004.
	www.viamichelin.com /viamichelin/gbr/tpl/mag4/art20040701/htm/tech_telepeage.htm (676 words)

	M6 Motorway [EBRD - Project Summary Document]
		The motorway will be constructed between “érdi tető” and the future intersection of the M6 and M8 Motorway which includes 4.55 km of the M8 close to Dunaújváros.
		The M6 Motorway will clearly show that the Hungarian Government is fully committed to private sector provision of infrastructure and is supporting the forthcoming PPP programme.
		The Client is M6 Duna Autópálya Koncessziós Részvénytársaság, a single purpose company organised in Hungary to undertake the finance, construction and operation of the M6 Motorway after a successful tender for the concession by the Consortium led by Bilfinger Berger BOT GmbH (Germany), Porr Infrastruktur GmbH (Austria) and Swietelsky International Bau GmbH (Austria).
	www.ebrd.com /projects/psd/psd2005/35264.htm (990 words)

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