Lanes closures southbound
ClearedLanes closures southbound
- Start time
- Sat, Jul 4, 2026 8:00 PM
- Expected end
- Sun, Jul 5, 2026 3:00 AM
- Duration
- 1 second
- Road
- M42 – M42 Southbound Between J7 And J6
- Category
- Road Maintenance
- Direction
- Southbound
- Carriageway
- Dual Carriageway
- Lanes affected
- 2 of 2 lanes affected
- Reason
- Maintenance Work
Live incident
Active roadworks
Planned
Cleared
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- First published
- Fri, Jul 3, 2026 11:18 PM
- Last updated
- Sat, Jul 4, 2026 12:53 AM
- Cleared
- Sat, Jul 4, 2026 8:00 PM
- Latest update: Lanes closures southbound
- Coordinates
- 52.462830, -1.710150
- Latitude span
- 52.453138 – 52.473708
- Longitude span
- -1.711297 – -1.709136
- Bounding box centre
- 52.463423, -1.710217
- Location descriptions
-
- M42 southbound between J7 and J6
- M42 southbound between J7A and J7
- Feed validity status
- Planned
- Overall feed start
- Sat, Jul 4, 2026 8:00 PM
- Overall feed end
- Sun, Jul 5, 2026 3:00 AM
- Feed window length
- 7 hours
- Probability code (raw)
- probable
- 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
3 coordinate pairs- Description
- M42 southbound between J7 and J6
- 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
- M42
- Linear Element Model
- The Network Model
- Linear Element Id
- {0B2EEDBF-EB46-4C6E-B5CB-03F5A4433E8C}
- Linear Element Type
- B Carriageway
- From Distance
- 0 m
- To Distance
- 54 m
- Gml Srs Name
- EPSG::4326
- Gml Srs Dimension
- 2
Raw coordinate list
52.453617 -1.709308 52.453612 -1.709307 52.453138 -1.709136
Segment 2
5 coordinate pairs- Description
- M42 southbound between J7A and J7
- 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
- M42
- Linear Element Model
- The Network Model
- Linear Element Id
- {54D80228-F8EF-4406-8516-9FCEDDEDF13D}
- Linear Element Type
- B Carriageway
- From Distance
- 383 m
- To Distance
- 609 m
- Gml Srs Name
- EPSG::4326
- Gml Srs Dimension
- 2
Raw coordinate list
52.473708 -1.711285 52.473665 -1.711286 52.473369 -1.711297 52.472476 -1.711229 52.471676 -1.711101
Segment 3
26 coordinate pairs- Description
- M42 southbound between J7 and J6
- 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
- M42
- Linear Element Model
- The Network Model
- Linear Element Id
- {4E56E7E9-2ECA-5C7F-E516-A0794005A6E7}
- Linear Element Type
- B Carriageway
- From Distance
- 0 m
- To Distance
- 1,245 m
- Gml Srs Name
- EPSG::4326
- Gml Srs Dimension
- 2
Raw coordinate list
52.464753 -1.709881 52.464483 -1.709883 52.464456 -1.709883 52.464285 -1.709899 52.464223 -1.709903 52.463593 -1.709948 52.46318 -1.70998 52.462604 -1.710042 52.462362 -1.710088 52.461032 -1.710259 52.460385 -1.710322 52.46016 -1.710341 52.459639 -1.710386 52.459045 -1.710404 52.458299 -1.71038 52.457858 -1.710368 52.457211 -1.710284 52.45695 -1.710241 52.456634 -1.710183 52.45641 -1.710142 52.456177 -1.710099 52.455655 -1.70997 52.454755 -1.709697 52.454098 -1.70948 52.453665 -1.709326 52.453617 -1.709308
Segment 4
9 coordinate pairs- Description
- M42 southbound between J7 and J6
- 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
- M42
- Linear Element Model
- The Network Model
- Linear Element Id
- {AF99819E-9315-4F5D-91D4-2AC28FAFCB70}
- Linear Element Type
- B Carriageway
- From Distance
- 0 m
- To Distance
- 590 m
- Gml Srs Name
- EPSG::4326
- Gml Srs Dimension
- 2
Raw coordinate list
52.471676 -1.711101 52.470799 -1.710935 52.469214 -1.710526 52.468449 -1.710328 52.467918 -1.710214 52.46727 -1.710085 52.466953 -1.710047 52.466569 -1.710002 52.466416 -1.709988
Segment 5
6 coordinate pairs- Description
- M42 southbound between J7 and J6
- 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
- M42
- Linear Element Model
- The Network Model
- Linear Element Id
- {C01F1013-5DF5-4DB9-8803-5A1E9040F03C}
- Linear Element Type
- B Carriageway
- From Distance
- 0 m
- To Distance
- 185 m
- Gml Srs Name
- EPSG::4326
- Gml Srs Dimension
- 2
Raw coordinate list
52.466416 -1.709988 52.465895 -1.709933 52.465292 -1.709892 52.465139 -1.709879 52.465112 -1.709879 52.464753 -1.709881
- Geometry type
- MultiLineString
- Geometry points
- 49
- First coordinate pair
- -1.709308, 52.453617
- Road section segments
- 1
- Road section points
- 49
View geometry JSON
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- Cause type
- Road Maintenance
- Detailed cause
- Maintenance Work
- Compliance
- Mandatory
- Probability
- Probable
- Validity status
- Planned
- Road management
- Other
- Feed provider
- National Highways
- Data source
- Roadworks
- Feed version
- 4
- Record created
- Fri, Jul 3, 2026 11:18 PM
- Record versioned
- Sat, Jul 4, 2026 12:53 AM
- Coordinate source
- Geometry
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