M2 Junction 3 eastbound slip road shut overnight for roadworks

The M2 Junction 3 eastbound entry slip is closed as part of planned roadworks, according to the estate's monitoring instrument, which flagged the closure as active now and running until 06:00 tomorrow. The National Highways bulletin dated 13 November 2018 sets out a broader package of overnight works affecting the M2 eastbound carriageway around this stretch, though it does not list the J3 eastbound entry slip specifically by that name — the closest matching entries in the bulletin cover the J3 eastbound exit slip and the eastbound carriageway between Junctions 2 and 4, according to [1]. Per that bulletin, the M2 eastbound exit slip at Junction 3 has one of its two lanes closed for planned roadworks, with a schedule running from 20:00 on 15 November to 06:00 on 16 November, repeating on 23–24 November and nightly from 3 to 7 December, according to [1]. Separately, the same bulletin lists all four lanes of the M2 eastbound carriageway between Junctions 2 and 4 closing on an identical schedule — 20:00 on 15 November to 06:00 on 16 November, again on 23–24 November, and nightly from 3 to 7 December — for planned roadworks, according to [1]. Further along the route, the bulletin also records lane closures westbound between Junctions 5 and 4 for emergency barrier repairs, an all-lanes closure of the J6 westbound entry slip running into December and January, and a lane closure eastbound between Junctions 5 and 7 for emergency roadworks — all timed to the same 15–16 November overnight window, according to [1]. Wayne should note a discrepancy: the trigger describes an entry slip closure at J3 eastbound, but the bulletin text itself only names an exit slip closure at that junction, alongside the wider carriageway closure nearby. Whether the entry slip is also shut, as the instrument states, is not established in the material provided — National Highways' own separate closure-report page returned no matching results at the time of writing, offering no confirmation either way, according to [2]. That page also carries a standing caveat that its schedules are subject to change at short notice, particularly the further ahead they are checked, according to [2]. All the schedules in the bulletin point to the same overnight pattern: closures generally beginning at 20:00 and lifting at 06:00, consistent with the trigger's "until tomorrow 06:00" window, according to [1] and [2]. Drivers planning to join the M2 eastbound at Junction 3 overnight should treat both the exit slip lane closure and the fuller Junction 2–4 carriageway closure as live risks for delay, given the overlapping dates, according to [1]. What to watch next: whether National Highways' live closure report updates to explicitly confirm or correct the entry-slip closure at J3 eastbound that the estate's instrument flagged, since the bulletin text alone does not name it.