7 a.m. update: Current travel times

The drive has quickly soured on many metro roads with crashes and congestion resulting in rapidly-growing travel times.

The big problem areas are on northbound 35 from County 2 to County 70: 18 minutes.

A crash on westbound 94 at Portland Avenue in downtown Minneapolis is doing a fine job at tangling traffic.

It's congestion on westbound 494 and southbound 169 leading to delays. Here are some current travel times:

North metro

Southbound 35W from 95th Avenue to Hwy. 280: 20 minutes

Southbound 35E from County 96 to I-94: 15 minutes.

West metro

Eastbound 94 from Hwy. 101 to 494: 15 minutes

Southbound 494 from 94 down to 394: 9 minutes

Eastbound 394 to 35W via 94: 10 minutes

Southbound Hwy. 169 from I-94 to Crosstown: 24 minutes

Northbound 35W from County 42 to the Crosstown: 10 minutes.

Northbound Cedar Avenue from 35E to the Crosstown: 10 minutes

Northbound 35E from County 42 to downtown St. Paul: 19 minutes

Northbound 169 from County 18 to 494: 8 minutes

Eastbound Hwy. 212 from Dell Road to Crosstown: 11 minutes

Westbound Crosstown from Cedar Avenue to Hwy. 169: 13 minutes Eastbound Crosstown from Hwy. 100 to Cedar Avenue: 11 minutes

East metro

Westbound 94 from Keats Avenue to downtown St. Paul: 20 minutes

Westbound 94 from 35E to the Lowry Hill Tunnel: 15 minutes.