7:35 a.m. update: Current drive times

Officials have closed the ramp from westbound 494 to 24th Avenue as rescue personnel work to extricate two people from a car that crashed into a tree. The action has commuters gawking as they pass by and that has traffic jammed from Hwy. 5 past the scene.

Drive times are rising on crammed northbound 35W from Hwy. 13 to the Minnesota River bridge and on northbound Hwy. 169 from Hwy. 101 up to Anderson Lakes Pkwy. The good news, the delays are not as horrible as earlier in the week.

The rest of the system is looking might fine with no crashes or congestion to hold you back.

Here are some current travel times:

North metro

Southbound 35W from 95th Avenue to Hwy. 280: 13 minutes

Southbound 35E from County J to I-94: 13 minutes.

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

West metro

Eastbound 94 from Hwy. 101 to 494: 9 minutes

Southbound 494 from 94 down to 394: 8 minutes

Eastbound 394 from 494 to 35W via 94: 9 minutes

Southbound Hwy. 100 from I-94 to Crosstown: 14 minutes

South metro

Northbound 35W from County 42 to the Crosstown: 15 minutes.

Northbound Cedar Avenue from 35E to the Crosstown: 9 minutes

Northbound 35E from County 42 to downtown St. Paul: 18 minutes

Eastbound Hwy. 212 from Dell Road to Crosstown: 10 minutes

Westbound 494 from Cedar Avenue to Hwy. 100: 14 minutes. Eastbound 494 from Hwy. 169 to 35W: 5 minutes

Westbound Crosstown from Cedar Avenue to Hwy. 169: 8 minutes Eastbound Crosstown from Hwy. 100 to Cedar Avenue: 7 minutes

East metro

Westbound 94 from Manning Avenue to downtown St. Paul: 11 minutes