7:30 a.m. update: Current drive times

A couple crashes on the system are tangling traffic in the north metro. On southbound 35W, a crash on the ramp to 95th Avenue in Blaine has traffic knotted up from County 23 past the scene. Ahead, look for pockets of congestion from County Road I to downtown Minneapolis.

January 21, 2015 at 1:32PM

A couple crashes on the system are tangling traffic in the north metro. On southbound 35W, a crash on the ramp to 95th Avenue in Blaine has traffic knotted up from County 23 past the scene. Ahead, look for pockets of congestion from County Road I to downtown Minneapolis.

Westbound Hwy. 36 is accident free now that a crash at Snelling Avenue has been removed. Traffic, however, is still sputtering from Hwy. 61 to Snelling.

Eastbound 94 is tight from 101st Avenue past a wreck at Maple Grove Pkwy. That's adding 5 to 7 minutes to the drive time.

Here are some current travel times:

North metro

Southbound 35W from 95th Avenue to downtown Minneapolis: 22 minutes

Southbound 35E from County 96 to I-94: 14 minutes.

Eastbound Hwy. 10 from Hwy. 169 to 35W: 13 minutes

Westbound 694 from 35E to Hwy. 252: 15 minutes. Eastbound is 10 minutes.

West metro

Eastbound 94 from Crow River to 494: 19 minutes

Southbound 494 from 94 down to 394: 10 minutes

Eastbound 394 from 494 to 35W via 94: 10 minutes

Southbound Hwy. 169 from I-94 to Crosstown: 25 minutes

Southbound Hwy. 100 from I-94 to Crosstown: 25 minutes

South metro

Northbound 35W from County 42 to Crosstown: 12 minutes To downtown Minneapolis: 22 minutes.

Northbound Cedar Avenue from McAndrews Road to the Crosstown: 16 minutes

Northbound 35E from County 42 to downtown St. Paul: 20 minutes

Northbound 169 from Canterbury Road to 494: 14 minutes

Eastbound Hwy. 212 from Dell Road to Crosstown: 9 minutes

Westbound 494 from Cedar Avenue to Hwy. 100: 9 minutes. Eastbound 494 from Hwy. 169 to 35W: 6 minutes

Westbound Crosstown from Cedar Avenue to Hwy. 169: 11 minutes Eastbound Crosstown from Hwy. 169 to Cedar Avenue: 8 minutes

East metro

Westbound 94 from Manning Avenue to downtown St. Paul: 16 minutes

Westbound 94 from 35E to the Lowry Hill Tunnel: 11 minutes.

Westbound Hwy. 36 from Edgerton Street to 35W: 13 minutes.

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Tim Harlow

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Tim Harlow covers traffic and transportation issues in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, and likes to get out of the office, even during rush hour. He also covers the suburbs in northern Hennepin and all of Anoka counties, plus breaking news and weather.

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