M6 Toll is only of any use to bods like Murdoch "Passin Through"......
Whereas in reality one helluva large proportion of bog-standard M6 traffic needs to drop off either into Birmingham or down the M5....
So the M6 Toll serves absolutely no practical use to a large quantity of traffic...
And therefore lowering the Toll will make minimal difference to the majority of M6 traffic.
Bit like the M25, the M6 has loads of people commuting too/from work nipping up or down maybe 2, 3 or 4 junctions distance max.
I don't know if it is still true...
but many years ago they used to quote a statistic that the M6 between junction 8 (the M5) and junction 10a (the M54) was one of the busiest sections of motorway in Europe.
Some of the M6 traffic volume problems are because they never built the last section of what would have become a complete Birmingham/Wolverhampton orbital Motorway....
The M6 Toll is from J11 of M6 down to J3a / J4 M6... which also connects with the M42..
The M42 goes from J4 of M6 down to J4a of the M5....
There has on numerous occasions been talk of another Motorway linking near J4a M5 back up to near J11 of M6...
Making a full Orbital loop... M6 Toll / M42 / M(unknown name) circumnavigating the whole of Birmingham and Wolverhampton....
{I know because we are approx. 10mins from J4 of the M5 and whenever another plan is being muted,
the local press start having a field day with articles on proposed routes and the devastation they will cause!}
But that has so far not happened...
So all M5 north to M6 north traffic has no other options...
and all M6 south to M5 south has no other options..
Even with the M6 Toll open and functional!
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