An increase of more trucks, cars and commercial vehicles using the M6 toll road motorway has been reported to be in excess of 1.6 million.
The increase is boosting revenues as drivers seek an alternative to major roadworks and long delays on the M6 but Midland Expressway, which runs the 27-mile long M6 Toll, still racked up losses of more than £30 million, weighed down by interest and repayments on the £900m cost of building the road eight years ago.
Traffic volumes and toll revenues for the past year have benefited from roadworks in place on the competing M6 however with an improved M6, this could reduce users of the M6 toll road in future and the longer term.
The Highways Agency’s Smart Motorway project which is widening and improving the M6 is likely to continue to boost traffic for the toll road until the work is completed in 2015.
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