M2 J3 eastbound entry slip closure was overnight only, records suggest — but reporting can't confirm current dates

An overnight closure of the M2 eastbound entry slip road at junction 3 was flagged as active by the estate's monitoring instruments, due to clear at 06:00 today. On checking the material gathered to stand this up, the picture is messier than the alert suggested, and the discrepancy itself is worth flagging to Wayne plainly. The most relevant dated record found is a National Highways bulletin logged on 13 November 2018, which describes roadworks at the "M2 J3 eastbound exit" — not the entry slip named in the trigger — with lane two closed overnight across three separate windows: 15–16 November 2018, 23–24 November 2018, and nightly from 3 to 7 December 2018, according to [1]. That bulletin also lists a full four-lane overnight closure of the M2 eastbound between junctions 2 and 4 on the same dates, and a J6 westbound entry slip closure running into January 2019, according to [1]. None of these entries match an eastbound entry slip at J3 specifically, and none are current. A second source, a live-traffic listing site, does carry an entry for "The M2 eastbound at junction J3" with lane three closed, but the surrounding schedule text is truncated in the material supplied and does not give usable dates for that specific line, according to [2]. Every other dated entry on that same page — including M2 and A2 closures at neighbouring junctions — carries schedule years of 2026, according to [2]. That is either a data error in the source or a sign the page mixes historical and forward-dated listings; the material does not say which, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. Put together: nothing in either source confirms a closure of the M2 eastbound entry slip at J3 active now, clearing at 06:00 today, as the trigger stated. The nearest match by location and mechanism — the J3 eastbound exit slip roadworks — belongs to a 2018 schedule, and the only J3 eastbound entry-adjacent listing in the second source lacks a readable date. This is worth saying to Wayne directly: the instrument that raised this alert may have keyed off a record whose reason and schedule fields don't line up with what the alert text described, or the alert may be pulling from a page that itself contains scrambled or stale dates. Either way, this is not confirmed as a live closure this morning. Practically, if Wayne or his driver are due on the M2 eastbound at J3 before 06:00 today, the honest answer is: unconfirmed. The estate's own instrument raised it, but the reporting material behind it doesn't support the specific claim as stated, and no source here carries today's date with certainty. What to watch next: a fresh, correctly dated National Highways bulletin or a clean live-traffic pull specific to the M2 eastbound J3 entry slip, so today's status can actually be verified rather than inferred from mismatched historical and forward-dated records.