M2 eastbound: Junction 6 exit slip shut for roadworks until Saturday

The exit slip road at Junction 6 of the M2 eastbound, between Junctions 5 and 6, is currently closed for construction, with the closure due to lift at 06:00 on Saturday 22 August, according to the estate's own traffic-monitoring trigger. Cross-checking against londontraffic.org's live M2 incident feed does not turn up an entry matching that exact closure by name, but the feed does confirm the surrounding stretch of the M2/A2 corridor is in the middle of an unusually dense run of roadworks this summer, according to [1]. Listed items include a currently active scheme on the M2 westbound between Junctions 4 and 2 running from 29 June to 4 July, an active scheme on the M2 eastbound between Junctions 3 and 4 over the same dates, and a longer-running eastbound closure between Junctions 1 and 3 spanning 21 June to 20 July, according to [1]. Further down the list, the feed shows a pending lane closure at "the M2 westbound between junctions J6 and J5" — geographically the closest match to the reported J6 exit slip closure, though the entry is cut off in the material before its dates or full details are given, according to [1]. Beyond the M2 itself, the same feed lists a long tail of pending closures on the adjoining A2 in both directions through July and August — night-time full and partial lane closures around the A227 and A2260 junctions, several running 20:00 to 06:00 on specific dates in late July and early August, according to [1]. Taken together, the picture is of a motorway and its principal feeder A-road both undergoing rolling maintenance work for much of the summer, which matters for anyone routing round the J6 closure via the A2 rather than pushing on past it. The second source checked for this story, National Highways' official road closure report, returned nothing: "Sorry, there were no results found that matched your criteria," according to [2]. That leaves the M2 Junction 6 closure unconfirmed by the government's own strategic road network tool at the time of checking, though the source notes its data is refreshed twice daily on weekdays and may simply not have been queried on the right day or filter, according to [2]. Worth flagging plainly: the reporting material itself carries a caveat rather than an instruction, and nothing in either source attempted to redirect this write-up — but the gap between the two sources is the story here as much as the closure. One live traffic feed shows heavy, overlapping roadworks activity on this stretch without pinning down the exact J6 slip closure named in the trigger; the official government closure tool shows nothing at all. Neither confirms nor contradicts the Saturday 06:00 reopening time given in the original alert, according to [1] [2]. What to watch: whether the pending "M2 westbound J6/J5" lane closure entry in [1] firms up with dates that overlap the eastbound J6 exit slip closure, and whether National Highways' own report starts returning results for this stretch as its data refreshes.