Hard shoulder closure
Clearedhard shoulder closure
- Start time
- Tue, Aug 11, 2026 6:48 AM
- Expected end
- Tue, Aug 11, 2026 5:00 PM
- Duration
- 1 hour 12 minutes 2 seconds
- Road
- M49 – M49 Southbound Between M4 And Avonmouth Junction
- Category
- Road Maintenance
- Direction
- Southbound
- Carriageway
- Dual Carriageway
- Reason
- Maintenance Work
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- First published
- Tue, Aug 11, 2026 6:48 AM
- Last updated
- Tue, Aug 11, 2026 7:44 AM
- Cleared
- Tue, Aug 11, 2026 8:00 AM
- Latest update: hard shoulder closure
- Coordinates
- 51.549713, -2.641155
- Latitude span
- 51.544996 – 51.553736
- Longitude span
- -2.645962 – -2.637539
- Bounding box centre
- 51.549366, -2.641751
- Location descriptions
-
- M49 southbound between M4 and Avonmouth junction
- M49 southbound between Avonmouth junction and M5/A4
- Feed validity status
- Active
- Overall feed start
- Tue, Aug 11, 2026 6:48 AM
- Overall feed end
- Tue, Aug 11, 2026 5:00 PM
- Feed window length
- 10 hours 12 minutes
- Probability code (raw)
- certain
- Compliance option (raw)
- mandatory
- Source identification (raw)
- roadworks
- Management type value
- other
- Contra-flow flag (raw)
- false
- Width restriction flag (raw)
- false
- Height restriction flag (raw)
- false
- Weight restriction flag (raw)
- false
Segment 1
5 coordinate pairs- Description
- M49 southbound between M4 and Avonmouth junction
- Carriageway
- Dual Carriageway
- Lane Usage
- Lh
- Lane Number
- 0
- Lane Status
- Closed
- Lane Direction
- Aligned
- Lanes Restricted
- 0 lanes restricted
- Operational Lanes
- 3 operational lanes
- Direction On Section
- South Bound
- Direction Relative
- Aligned
- Height Grade
- Start1 End1
- Linear Element Road
- M49
- Linear Element Model
- The Network Model
- Linear Element Id
- {C6724A4A-DA14-49FF-A928-E3350B3A9D29}
- Linear Element Type
- A Carriageway
- From Distance
- 777 m
- To Distance
- 1,149 m
- Gml Srs Name
- EPSG::4326
- Gml Srs Dimension
- 2
Raw coordinate list
51.553736 -2.645962 51.553386 -2.645491 51.55311 -2.645097 51.552432 -2.64415 51.55123 -2.642418
Segment 2
13 coordinate pairs- Description
- M49 southbound between Avonmouth junction and M5/A4
- Carriageway
- Dual Carriageway
- Lane Usage
- Lh
- Lane Number
- 0
- Lane Status
- Closed
- Lane Direction
- Aligned
- Lanes Restricted
- 0 lanes restricted
- Operational Lanes
- 3 operational lanes
- Direction On Section
- South Bound
- Direction Relative
- Aligned
- Height Grade
- Start1 End1
- Linear Element Road
- M49
- Linear Element Model
- The Network Model
- Linear Element Id
- {BE6B534D-BAA9-4F92-B7AD-30B78F172DFE}
- Linear Element Type
- A Carriageway
- From Distance
- 0 m
- To Distance
- 783 m
- Gml Srs Name
- EPSG::4326
- Gml Srs Dimension
- 2
Raw coordinate list
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- Geometry type
- MultiLineString
- Geometry points
- 18
- First coordinate pair
- -2.645962, 51.553736
- Road section segments
- 1
- Road section points
- 18
View geometry JSON
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View road section coordinates
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- Cause type
- Road Maintenance
- Detailed cause
- Maintenance Work
- Compliance
- Mandatory
- Probability
- Certain
- Validity status
- Active
- Road management
- Other
- Feed region label
- and Avonmouth
- Feed provider
- National Highways
- Data source
- Roadworks
- Feed version
- 1
- Record created
- Tue, Aug 11, 2026 6:48 AM
- Record versioned
- Tue, Aug 11, 2026 7:44 AM
- Coordinate source
- Geometry
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