M6 Toll - Glasgow to Southampton. Do I need to use it?

Bigwheels1111

I love the M6 toll road and as my car is registered as disabled I pay £7 a year to use it.

£8.40 each way is quite a chunk of cash.

If you want to use the M40, my sat nav gets a bit twitchy after the toll.

You need to get onto the M42 then M40. It wants to go M1 ???. AGH.

So I use this McDonalds address OX27 7SG as it just off the M40 and forces me down the M42 first.

Plus its a mile off the M40 and not as busy as services.

Hope it helps.

Goudy

Bigwheels1111 said:

I love the M6 toll road and as my car is registered as disabled I pay £7 a year to use it.

£8.40 each way is quite a chunk of cash.

Look it the other way.

It's only £8.40 to miss the sh*ttiesh stretch of motorway in Britain.
Absolute bargain!

Bigwheels1111

Goudy said:

Bigwheels1111 said:

I love the M6 toll road and as my car is registered as disabled I pay £7 a year to use it.

£8.40 each way is quite a chunk of cash.

Look it the other way.

It's only £8.40 to miss the sh*ttiesh stretch of motorway in Britain.
Absolute bargain!

I agree with you 100%.

Nasqueron

Mutton_Geoff said:

And watch out for the gantry signs that say "M6 congested ... M6 toll clear". I expect they leave that on 24 hrs!

I think I have seen M6 Toll with a delay reported once and I don't use M6 that much!

RandomTourist

I have - far too often - decided that the toll road is too expensive. Each time I've regretted it as there has been dreadful congestion on the M6 itself. Should be OK at an uncivilised time of the morning, though (unless one of the roadwoks bits on the M^ is retricted to one lane...)

Mildly_Miffed

Bigwheels1111 said:

If you want to use the M40, my sat nav gets a bit twitchy after the toll.

You need to get onto the M42 then M40. It wants to go M1 ???. AGH.

So I use this McDonalds address OX27 7SG as it just off the M40 and forces me down the M42 first.

Have you considered just not following the satnav, considering you know where you're going...?

Bigwheels1111

Mildly_Miffed said:

Bigwheels1111 said:

If you want to use the M40, my sat nav gets a bit twitchy after the toll.

You need to get onto the M42 then M40. It wants to go M1 ???. AGH.

So I use this McDonalds address OX27 7SG as it just off the M40 and forces me down the M42 first.

Have you considered just not following the satnav, considering you know where you're going...?

Yes, Ive still messed up on that junction.

I know Im an idiot.

poppasmurf_bewdley

Leave Southampton on the M3, then A34 all the way to the M4. Use M4 to Jn 15, then north on A 419 all the way to the M5.  Then north up M5 to M6 and Glasgow. That's dual carriageway all the way apart from a couple of miles at the old Air Balloon (now being rerouted).  

ontheroad1970

poppasmurf_bewdley said:

Leave Southampton on the M3, then A34 all the way to the M4. Use M4 to Jn 15, then north on A 419 all the way to the M5.  Then north up M5 to M6 and Glasgow. That's dual carriageway all the way apart from a couple of miles at the old Air Balloon (now being rerouted).  

Nice return directions - th eOP is going the other way