m6toll uk opening this week?

Sun 7 Dec 2003



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12:39pm (UK)
First Toll M-Way to Open

By Matthew Cooper, PA News


The country’s first toll motorway will open to traffic this week, the road’s operator said today.

But Midland Expressway Ltd (MEL) discounted reports that the 27-mile M6 Toll, formerly known as the Birmingham Northern Relief Road, would welcome its first customers tomorrow.

The Scotsman...Dec 7

An MEL spokesman said: “The M6 Toll is planned to open next week, but we can confirm this will not be on Monday 8th December.”

The company revealed last month that the £900 million highway project would be subject to a phased opening over a five-day period.

Managing director Tom Fanning told a news conference at the firm’s headquarters in Weeford, Staffs, that opening the road was a very complex process and that motorists’ safety must be paramount.