8:35 a.m. update: Crashes causing big backups

A crash that has had the left lane of westbound 94 blocked for the past 45 minutes at County Road 17B in Lake Elmo has traffic at a standstill four miles back to near Hwy. 95. Plan on 25 minutes from there to reach downtown St. Paul.

April 15, 2015 at 1:40PM

A crash that has had the left lane of westbound 94 blocked for the past 45 minutes at County Road 17B in Lake Elmo has traffic at a standstill four miles back to near Hwy. 95. Plan on 25 minutes from there to reach downtown St. Paul.

In Burnsville, a center-lane blocking crash on northbound 35W at 113th Street has traffic at a standstill from Burnsville Pkwy. It's 34 minutes to downtown Minneapolis.

In the north metro, a wreck on southbound 35W at County Road H has traffic creeping along from 95th Avenue. It's 27 minutes to downtown Minneapolis.

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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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