The Planner
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There is one just after 4 and in the middle of 8 northbound, thats it.There are cameras!
There is one just after 4 and in the middle of 8 northbound, thats it.There are cameras!
That’s a much longer walk, and a longer drive. It’s the trundle from the motorway to the car park that seems to take ages (particularly northbound) compared to simpler ‘roadside’ types.I always go past the congested bit and park at the very far end in the "overflow" bit which has its own exit back to the "ring road" (the one-way barrier lifts when you drive up to it on exit). That avoids most of it.
M40 - M42 - M6 Toll - M6 is such a natural route and everyone I know uses, or used to use this, in preference to battling around Brum on the M6 or M5.
They're both weren't there in the begining though, and pillocks like me would take advantage of that.............nuff said.There is one just after 4 and in the middle of 8 northbound, thats it.
That’s a much longer walk
, and a longer drive.
It’s the trundle from the motorway to the car park that seems to take ages (particularly northbound) compared to simpler ‘roadside’ types.
Inside seems a bad layout. If you want To get to the loo the Costa seating sends you a long way round then it is a narrow passage with gaggles of coach passengers clogging it up.
Does the petrol station have decent parking and loos - that is often the fastest pit stop at other services, but Covid meant I forgot which ones!
Me too, I used to drive at 90+mph before cameras, including on this road. No more, that’s probably good for other road users, my health and my wallet.They're both weren't there in the begining though, and pillocks like me would take advantage of that.............nuff said.
Me too, I used to drive at 90+mph before cameras, including on this road. No more, that’s probably good for other road users.
I've gone from one extreme to the other, I was ok on 'normal' roads & Dual Carriageways, but a 100+ bloke on motorways, particularly the M6 & 69 which were both local to me. and didn't have cameras @ the time, I know the M6 does now but I don't think, but don't quote me that the 69 does.
Experience suggests the M40 is pretty much a race track from J5 to J9 (at least), unless TVP are about.I'm led to believe the almost totally cameraless M40 can still be like it used to be, though.
Experience suggests the M40 is pretty much a race track from J5 to J9 (at least), unless TVP are about.
In an XJS??? That's even more bonkers! By the time the toll road opened, I'm surprised it didn't shake itself to pieces at those sorts of speeds!As far north as Warwick in my frequent experience. But much, much less so than it was 30 years ago.
Not long after it opened I was doing c80 overtaking in the outside lane when I was approached from behind at speed by a Beamer flashing me out of his way - he went past at over 100 and then cut in front sharpish…. overtaking him was an XJS doing about 130. A couple of minutes later plod went past doing 140+ (he wasn’t in my mirrors one moment, then 10 seconds later he was 200 metres behind!), and then about 20 miles south the XJS was on the hard shoulder with the driver having a no tea no biscuits no licence conversation.
For those in the North, the "racetrack" was always the Eastbound descent from the M62 summit past the farm. The downside being you were a long way from rescue if you screwed up!The M40 is still a racetrack once it gets dark, with a fair bit of undertaking because of muppets doing less than 70 in lane 2.
In our youth we loved that big hill north out of Wycombe, you could get almost any piece of junk over 100mph down that!
In an XJS??? That's even more bonkers! By the time the toll road opened, I'm surprised it didn't shake itself to pieces at those sorts of speeds!
In our youth we loved that big hill north out of Wycombe, you could get almost any piece of junk over 100mph down that!
Nope, the M40. Between 5 and 6 by the TV tower.I meant the M40 when it opened (near Warwick)
+1, assuming you mean the hill from Wycombe south towards Bisham Abbey.
Nope, the M40. Between 5 and 6 by the TV tower.
Goes back to what I asked before, what time value etc is worth the £9 to people? I would be looking at around 15-20 minutes difference to cough up the nine quid.It looks like the tolls have just been increased by 30p for cars and 40p for vans. This is for using the whole length, those turning off earlier will pay the same as before it seems. New technology has been announced such as ANPR and digital devices being accepted.
M6 Toll price increase comes into force
The cost of using the route through Staffordshire has gone up by 30p for cars and 40p for vans.www.bbc.co.uk
Goes back to what I asked before, what time value etc is worth the £9 to people? I would be looking at around 15-20 minutes difference to cough up the nine quid.
There's more to the choice than simply "is the time saved worth £9 by an hourly rate" - it's just a much nicer driving experience.
Heading North on the M6 just after J4 there's a sign that has said 'M6 Toll clear' every time I've passed it. There's no incentive for them to say otherwise, of course, but does it ever change?
Heading North on the M6 just after J4 there's a sign that has said 'M6 Toll clear' every time I've passed it. There's no incentive for them to say otherwise, of course, but does it ever change?