7:05 a.m. update: Current drive times

In some places of the metro, namely the southwest metro, traffic is rolling along and life is a picnic. In other places, it's a nightmare.

The biggest hassle is on northbound Hwy. 61. A semi carrying coal tipped over at I-494 and that has the highway at 494 shut down for the next several hours. Traffic is being diverted to eastbound 494. At present, there is a backup to 80th Street in Cottage Grove.

The eastbound Crosstown is all bound up from France Avenue to Lyndale Avenue. A crash on the left shoulder is partly to blame. Ahead, northbound 35W loses steam from 50th Street to Lake Street.

In the north, southbound 35E is plugged up from 694 down to Roselawn Avenue. Earlier road work and a crash is causing the bumper to bumper conditions on westbound 694 from Hwy. 61 to the west junction of 35E, and on eastbound 694 from Rice Street over to 35E.

Here are some current travel times:

North metro

Southbound 35W from 95th Avenue to downtown Minneapolis: 20 minutes

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

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

West metro

Eastbound 94 from Crow River to 494: 14 minutes

Southbound 494 from 94 down to 394: 8 minutes

Southbound Hwy. 169 from I-94 to Crosstown: 15 minutes

Southbound Hwy. 100 from I-94 to Crosstown: 13 minutes

South metro

Northbound 35W from County 42 to Crosstown: 18 minutes To downtown Minneapolis: 24 minutes.

Northbound Cedar Avenue from 35E to the Crosstown: 14 minutes

Northbound 169 from Canterbury Road to 494: 13 minutes

Eastbound Hwy. 212 from Dell Road to Crosstown: 8 minutes

Westbound 494 from Cedar Avenue to Hwy. 100: 7 minutes. Eastbound 494 from Hwy. 169 to 35W: 5 minutes

Westbound Crosstown from Cedar Avenue to Hwy. 169: 9 minutes Eastbound Crosstown from Hwy. 100 to Cedar Avenue: 6 minutes

East metro

Westbound 94 from 35E to the Lowry Hill Tunnel: 13 minutes.