I have driven down from the north of England today. The traffic was chaos for much of the journey - it really is quite alarming that one of the backbones of transportation in the UK - the M6 motorway - was running no faster than 40mph for much of the journey today. The one relief in the journey was our use of the new M6 Toll motorway - which bypasses much of Birmingham - and certainly saved me some time today. I am not sure what I think of paying for road use when I already pay my road tax, but today I was more than happy to part with the money to speed my journey.