M62 to be shafted J26-27 for next 2 months

Highways Agency have just announced they’re going to be doing full overnight closures on the M62 between J26 and J27 from 25th September to 31st November. September til end of October Eastbound, all of November westbound. Diversion via A58 and A650 which will be fun given they’re going to be closing it from 8pm.

Apparently they have to do full closures because according to them due to the size of the plant and the space needed it’s not safe to work with a live lane open. Funny how they’ve managed to resurface the M6 around Carlisle with the very same plant and leave a lane open.

National Highways: Yorkshire:
For those who regularly use this part of the M62, you’ll know that the road surface here isn’t the smoothest; this is down to wear and tear and the sheer volume of traffic. Although there is never a good time to close a motorway, the time has come to resurface this section for safer and smoother journeys.
Why can’t we work under lane closures?
The size of the required plant machinery and the lack of safe working distance between those vehicles, our team and running traffic, means we must use full closures. Working this way also shortens the number of weeks we will be on-site - we aim to complete the work as quickly and safely as possible and re-open all lanes to traffic.
While we have a full closure in place, we’ll do other maintenance work to reduce the need for more disruption in the future. We will also be: -

• Servicing the lighting
• Clearing drainage gullies
• Litter picking
• Cutting verges and vegetation
• Servicing our CCTV motorway monitoring cameras
  We aim to work overnight between 8 pm and 6 am, Monday to Friday, subject to weather conditions.
• Eastbound closure 25/09/2023 – 01/11/23
• Westbound closure 02/11/2023 – 30/11/23
• Slip road closures - Junction 26 eastbound entry slip road, Junction 26 westbound exit slip road and Junction 27 eastbound exit slip road, including the M621 link road
  A fully signed diversion will be in place with traffic leaving the M62 at junction 26, onto the A58 and A650 back onto the M62 at junction 27.

Will be a pita if they do actually shut it at 8pm as advertised. Shouldn’t be allowed to close main routes like this before 10pm. It’s still evening rush hour some nights

Yeh roadworks further North are far more chilled out.

At £18 /£20 ph are you really bothered Connor , I’ve come down to tesco reading this morning & there’s seems to be advance road closure warnings x2/3 on most roads , more than I can take in that’s for sure
If you’re poorly paid / salary I could understand , but I’m sure you said you were on a good hourly rate so if the diversion takes a extra hour it just means a extra hour of your good hourly rate