The first of three planned weekend closures ran from Friday evening, July 31, to early Monday, August 3. "Part of that will be the communications put out by National Highways. We are asking National Highways to put out some much clearer comms so people are aware". A National Highways spokesperson said: "This phase of our M3 Junction 9 upgrade is crucial in tying together lots of work we’ve already done, allowing us to create free-flowing links through the junction. Two more M3 closures of Junction 9 are planned: August 21 to 24 and September 11 to 14.