{"id":681931,"date":"2026-07-09T08:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T08:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681931\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T08:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T08:05:09","slug":"drivers-faced-two-hour-delay-on-m6-after-roadworks-overran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681931\/","title":{"rendered":"Drivers faced two-hour delay on M6 after roadworks overran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Drivers were warned of two-hour delays on the M6 earlier due to overnight roadworks overrunning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three lanes on the southbound M6 in Cheshire between Junction 21A and Junction 21 in Warrington were closed during rush hour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The roadworks, which were due to end at 06:00 overran, National Highways said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said all lanes had now been reopened and delays were estimated to be about 50 minutes with six miles of congestion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drivers were warned of two-hour delays on the M6 earlier due to overnight roadworks overrunning. Three lanes on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-681931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}