Lane closures with switching southbound
ClearedLane closures with switching southbound
- Start time
- Fri, Dec 12, 2025 8:58 PM
- Expected end
- Sat, Dec 13, 2025 6:00 AM
- Duration
- 9 hours 2 minutes
- Road
- M6 – M6 Southbound Within J3
- Category
- Road Maintenance
- Direction
- Southbound
- Carriageway
- Dual Carriageway
- Lanes affected
- 2 of 3 lanes affected, 2 of 2 lanes affected
- Reason
- Maintenance Work
Live incident
Active roadworks
Planned
Cleared
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- First published
- Fri, Dec 12, 2025 8:58 PM
- Last updated
- Fri, Dec 12, 2025 10:58 PM
- Cleared
- Sat, Dec 13, 2025 6:00 AM
- Latest update: Lane closures with switching southbound
- Coordinates
- 52.460807, -1.489335
- Latitude span
- 52.454339 – 52.466490
- Longitude span
- -1.507156 – -1.474756
- Bounding box centre
- 52.460415, -1.490956
- Location descriptions
-
- M6 southbound within J3
- M6 southbound between J3 and J2
- M6 southbound between M6 Toll and J3
- Feed validity status
- Active
- Overall feed start
- Fri, Dec 12, 2025 8:58 PM
- Overall feed end
- Sat, Dec 13, 2025 6:00 AM
- Feed window length
- 9 hours 2 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
8 coordinate pairs- Description
- M6 southbound within J3
- Carriageway
- Dual Carriageway
- Lanes Restricted
- 2 lanes restricted
- Operational Lanes
- 3 operational lanes
- Direction On Section
- South Bound
- Direction Relative
- Aligned
- Height Grade
- Start2 End1
- Linear Element Road
- M6
- Linear Element Model
- The Network Model
- Linear Element Id
- {351C3A5A-245D-4680-A094-063A3D54BC76}
- Linear Element Type
- B Carriageway
- From Distance
- 0 m
- To Distance
- 420 m
- Gml Srs Name
- EPSG::4326
- Gml Srs Dimension
- 2
Raw coordinate list
52.462537 -1.492122 52.462228 -1.491302 52.461865 -1.490393 52.461665 -1.489881 52.461229 -1.488885 52.460984 -1.488328 52.460657 -1.48764 52.460385 -1.48704
Segment 2
4 coordinate pairs- Description
- M6 southbound within J3
- Carriageway
- Dual Carriageway
- Lanes Restricted
- 2 lanes restricted
- Operational Lanes
- 3 operational lanes
- Direction On Section
- South Bound
- Direction Relative
- Aligned
- Height Grade
- Start2 End2
- Linear Element Road
- M6
- Linear Element Model
- The Network Model
- Linear Element Id
- {8A574750-B2ED-47C3-AEF2-8FAA0745B904}
- Linear Element Type
- B Carriageway
- From Distance
- 0 m
- To Distance
- 126 m
- Gml Srs Name
- EPSG::4326
- Gml Srs Dimension
- 2
Raw coordinate list
52.464067 -1.496741 52.463985 -1.496462 52.463575 -1.495142 52.463557 -1.495084
Segment 3
6 coordinate pairs- Description
- M6 southbound between J3 and J2
- Carriageway
- Dual Carriageway
- Lanes Restricted
- 2 lanes restricted
- Operational Lanes
- 2 operational lanes
- Direction On Section
- South Bound
- Direction Relative
- Aligned
- Height Grade
- Start1 End2
- Linear Element Road
- M6
- Linear Element Model
- The Network Model
- Linear Element Id
- {E19DCB68-0F62-40B5-87E2-0C8C5386D12B}
- Linear Element Type
- B Carriageway
- From Distance
- 0 m
- To Distance
- 230 m
- Gml Srs Name
- EPSG::4326
- Gml Srs Dimension
- 2
Raw coordinate list
52.460385 -1.48704 52.460049 -1.486308 52.459714 -1.48565 52.459424 -1.485109 52.459333 -1.484933 52.459052 -1.484451
Segment 4
3 coordinate pairs- Description
- M6 southbound between J3 and J2
- Carriageway
- Dual Carriageway
- Lanes Restricted
- 2 lanes restricted
- Operational Lanes
- 2 operational lanes
- Direction On Section
- South Bound
- Direction Relative
- Aligned
- Height Grade
- Start2 End1
- Linear Element Road
- M6
- Linear Element Model
- The Network Model
- Linear Element Id
- {546C9DA9-5384-424F-852E-3AF8640E01BD}
- Linear Element Type
- B Carriageway
- From Distance
- 0 m
- To Distance
- 178 m
- Gml Srs Name
- EPSG::4326
- Gml Srs Dimension
- 2
Raw coordinate list
52.458998 -1.484348 52.458354 -1.483208 52.45793 -1.482391
Segment 5
11 coordinate pairs- Description
- M6 southbound between J3 and J2
- Carriageway
- Dual Carriageway
- Lanes Restricted
- 2 lanes restricted
- Operational Lanes
- 2 operational lanes
- Direction On Section
- South Bound
- Direction Relative
- Aligned
- Height Grade
- Start1 End2
- Linear Element Road
- M6
- Linear Element Model
- The Network Model
- Linear Element Id
- {90ACBE30-C361-4CE5-9DF0-BEBF95ACFA02}
- Linear Element Type
- B Carriageway
- From Distance
- 0 m
- To Distance
- 599 m
- Gml Srs Name
- EPSG::4326
- Gml Srs Dimension
- 2
Raw coordinate list
52.45793 -1.482391 52.457883 -1.482301 52.45746 -1.481486 52.457335 -1.481244 52.45733 -1.481233 52.456659 -1.479872 52.456223 -1.478994 52.456042 -1.478614 52.45567 -1.477809 52.455143 -1.476653 52.454625 -1.475423
Segment 6
5 coordinate pairs- Description
- M6 southbound within J3
- Carriageway
- Dual Carriageway
- Lanes Restricted
- 2 lanes restricted
- Operational Lanes
- 3 operational lanes
- Direction On Section
- South Bound
- Direction Relative
- Aligned
- Height Grade
- Start1 End2
- Linear Element Road
- M6
- Linear Element Model
- The Network Model
- Linear Element Id
- {A34BA127-C865-4010-BC02-D04E31A8E102}
- Linear Element Type
- B Carriageway
- From Distance
- 0 m
- To Distance
- 313 m
- Gml Srs Name
- EPSG::4326
- Gml Srs Dimension
- 2
Raw coordinate list
52.465236 -1.500938 52.465072 -1.500365 52.464515 -1.498326 52.464295 -1.497519 52.464067 -1.496741
Segment 7
7 coordinate pairs- Description
- M6 southbound between M6 Toll and J3
- Carriageway
- Dual Carriageway
- Lanes Restricted
- 2 lanes restricted
- Operational Lanes
- 2 operational lanes
- Direction On Section
- South Bound
- Direction Relative
- Aligned
- Height Grade
- Start1 End1
- Linear Element Road
- M6
- Linear Element Model
- The Network Model
- Linear Element Id
- {1E4EF33F-DFB3-472B-9F56-F444463D4415}
- Linear Element Type
- B Carriageway
- From Distance
- 220 m
- To Distance
- 665 m
- Gml Srs Name
- EPSG::4326
- Gml Srs Dimension
- 2
Raw coordinate list
52.46649 -1.507156 52.466429 -1.506812 52.466273 -1.50593 52.465965 -1.504344 52.465951 -1.504271 52.465245 -1.500967 52.465236 -1.500938
Segment 8
3 coordinate pairs- Description
- M6 southbound between J3 and J2
- Carriageway
- Dual Carriageway
- Lanes Restricted
- 2 lanes restricted
- Operational Lanes
- 2 operational lanes
- Direction On Section
- South Bound
- Direction Relative
- Aligned
- Height Grade
- Start2 End2
- Linear Element Road
- M6
- Linear Element Model
- The Network Model
- Linear Element Id
- {4D28E9FA-406B-47B3-A062-CC87E7113505}
- Linear Element Type
- B Carriageway
- From Distance
- 0 m
- To Distance
- 55 m
- Gml Srs Name
- EPSG::4326
- Gml Srs Dimension
- 2
Raw coordinate list
52.454625 -1.475423 52.454526 -1.475188 52.454339 -1.474756
Segment 9
5 coordinate pairs- Description
- M6 southbound within J3
- Carriageway
- Dual Carriageway
- Lanes Restricted
- 2 lanes restricted
- Operational Lanes
- 3 operational lanes
- Direction On Section
- South Bound
- Direction Relative
- Aligned
- Height Grade
- Start2 End2
- Linear Element Road
- M6
- Linear Element Model
- The Network Model
- Linear Element Id
- {8FE782D5-A46D-4438-93E4-BADBCA1B7879}
- Linear Element Type
- B Carriageway
- From Distance
- 0 m
- To Distance
- 231 m
- Gml Srs Name
- EPSG::4326
- Gml Srs Dimension
- 2
Raw coordinate list
52.463557 -1.495084 52.46312 -1.493749 52.463074 -1.493632 52.462683 -1.492533 52.462537 -1.492122
Segment 10
2 coordinate pairs- Description
- M6 southbound between J3 and J2
- Carriageway
- Dual Carriageway
- Lanes Restricted
- 2 lanes restricted
- Operational Lanes
- 2 operational lanes
- Direction On Section
- South Bound
- Direction Relative
- Aligned
- Height Grade
- Start2 End2
- Linear Element Road
- M6
- Linear Element Model
- The Network Model
- Linear Element Id
- {8F3ABF5D-C6FF-45AB-A1B0-120653874D0D}
- Linear Element Type
- B Carriageway
- From Distance
- 0 m
- To Distance
- 9 m
- Gml Srs Name
- EPSG::4326
- Gml Srs Dimension
- 2
Raw coordinate list
52.459052 -1.484451 52.458998 -1.484348
- Geometry type
- MultiLineString
- Geometry points
- 54
- First coordinate pair
- -1.492122, 52.462537
- Road section segments
- 1
- Road section points
- 54
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- Cause type
- Road Maintenance
- Detailed cause
- Maintenance Work
- Compliance
- Mandatory
- Probability
- Certain
- Validity status
- Active
- Road management
- Other
- Feed provider
- National Highways
- Data source
- Roadworks
- Feed version
- 1
- Record created
- Fri, Dec 12, 2025 8:58 PM
- Record versioned
- Fri, Dec 12, 2025 10:58 PM
- Coordinate source
- Geometry
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