Perhaps it's the sun, but traffic on eastbound 394 comes to a very slow roll from Penn Avenue to downtown Minneapolis. Eastbound 94 also loses speed from Broadway through the Lowry Hill Tunnel.
A pocket of heavy traffic on eastbound Hwy. 10 has traffic slowing from Round Lake Blvd. to Hanson Blvd. in Coon Rapids while northbound 35W is starting to get busy from County Road 42 up to the Minnesota River bridge.
Here are some current travel times:
North metro
Southbound 35W from 95th Avenue to downtown Minneapolis: 19 minutes
Southbound 35E from County 96 to I-94: 13 minutes.
Eastbound Hwy. 10 from Hwy. 169 to 35W: 13 minutes
Westbound 694 from 35E to Hwy. 252: 10 minutes. Eastbound is 10 minutes.