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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. Each tag can only be used with the registered number plate and has a unique account. All accounts on the M6 Toll are pre-paid, and must contain a positive balance, sufficient to cover ...
A proposed extension to the M6 Toll known as the 'M6 Expressway', which would have continued from the M6 Toll as far as Knutsford, at which point much of the existing M6 traffic leaves the M6 for Manchester, was abandoned in 2006 due to excessive costs, anticipated construction problems [30] and disappointing levels of use of the M6 Toll.
Increases in the fees for using the M6 Toll have come into force. The cost of using the 27-mile route through Staffordshire has gone up by 30p for cars and 40p for vans. The price for those ...
Road pricing schemes in place in the UK as of 2012 include road congestion pricing in London and Durham; the London low emission zone which is a pollution charge scheme only affecting trucks with less efficient engines entering London; and the M6 toll, the only existing toll road on a strategic road in the UK.
Toll roads in Great Britain, used to raise fees for the management of roads in the United Kingdom, were common in the era of the turnpike trusts.Currently there is a single major road, the M6 Toll and a small number of bridges and tunnels where tolls are collected.
An SMS scam targeting road tolls has resurfaced, claiming people owe money for unpaid bills.. An example of the scam text people may receive reads as follows: "Pay your FastTrak Lane tolls by ...
Prices for the M6 toll. In London and in a small number of other places road usage charges in the form of road pricing, however these are generally viewed as 'usage charges' rather than as tax for legal purposes although this is disputed in relation to the London congestion charge by the US and some other countries. [2]
In April 2015, Midland Expressway Limited donated £50,000 to Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust to honour an undertaking they made when the M6 Toll Motorway was built. [5] The donation is a "substantial contribution" towards the cost of reinstating the Crane Brook Culvert, which was removed when the motorway was built. [6]