M2 slip road at Junction 6 shut for construction until Saturday

The exit slip road at Junction 6 of the M2 is currently closed for construction, with the closure active now and scheduled to run until 06:00 on Saturday 22 August, according to the estate's own traffic monitoring instrument. The closure sits on the M2 eastbound between Junctions 5 and 6. This is one entry in a much larger set of roadworks currently affecting the M2 and its connecting A2 corridor, according to data pulled from londontraffic.org [1]. The listings show a heavy concentration of overnight and multi-week closures across both motorways, with schedules running from June through into August 2026. Several are marked "Currently Active," including a roadworks scheme on the M2 westbound between Junctions 4 and 2 running from 20:07 on 29 June to 06:00 on 4 July, a mirror scheme eastbound between Junctions 3 and 4 over the same window, and a longer eastbound scheme between Junctions 1 and 3 spanning 21 June to 20 July, according to [1]. The A2 features prominently too. An eastbound scheme between the M25 and the M2 junction was listed as currently active from 14 June to early July, and a westbound scheme between the M2 and the A2260 junction was active from 21 June, according to [1]. Beyond these, dozens of further entries describe pending lane closures — often one to two lanes at a time — timed for overnight windows between 20:00 and 06:00 across late July and into August, affecting both directions of the M2 near Junctions 2, 3 and 4, and the A2 near its junction with the A227, according to [1]. The source material is fragmentary in places, with several listings truncated mid-sentence, meaning exact lane counts and end dates for some individual closures are not fully confirmed by what was retrieved. Separately, a notice from Northern Ireland's Department for Infrastructure describes a distinct and unrelated M2 closure: a £1.5 million resurfacing scheme between Junctions 4 and 5 that closed the motorway fully in both directions overnight from 8pm Friday 24 July to 7am Saturday 25 July 2026, with traffic diverted via the A6 Antrim Road, A6 Ballyclare Road and A57 Ballyclare Road, according to [2]. That work was reported to have finished ahead of schedule, and the road was confirmed reopened by 7am on the Saturday, according to [2]. Given the M2 designation exists in more than one part of the UK road network, it is not established from the material whether this Northern Ireland closure has any bearing on the Junction 6 slip road closure flagged by the estate's instrument, and readers should treat them as separate items unless further confirmation ties them together. Taken together, the material shows the M2/A2 corridor tracked by Wayne's feed is in the middle of an extended, multi-junction resurfacing and roadworks programme, with the Junction 6 exit slip closure being the one directly flagged as live right now. What to watch next: confirmation of whether the Junction 6 slip closure lifts on schedule at 06:00 Saturday 22 August, and whether the overlapping Junction 2–4 schemes on the M2/A2 extend or compound congestion in the interim.