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8 a.m. update: Current drive times

The crashes just keep coming.

By Tim Harlow

January 8, 2015 at 2:02PM

The crashes just keep coming. Here is the latest list of wrecks and incidents:

Car fire taking out left lane on southbound Hwy. 100 at 50th Street. Backup begins north of Duluth Street.
Westbound I-94 near Hwy. 280. Backup begins near Western Avenue in St. Paul.
Southbound 35W at County Road I. Sluggish traffic from 95th Avenue and heavy from Industrial Blvd. to Hennepin Avenue
Northbound 35W has two crashes between Hwy. 13 and the Cliff Road. Things flow rather smoothly north of 98th Street

Here are some current travel times:

North metro

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

Southbound 35E from County 96 to I-94: 12 minutes.

Eastbound Hwy. 10 from Hwy. 169 to 35W: 12 minutes

Westbound 694 from 35E to Hwy. 252: 11 minutes. Eastbound is 10 minutes.

West metro

Eastbound 94 from Hwy. 101 to 494: 12 minutes

Southbound 494 from 94 down to 394: 9 minutes

Eastbound 394 from 494 to 35W via 94: 10 minutes

Southbound Hwy. 169 from I-94 to Crosstown: 21 minutes

Southbound Hwy. 100 from I-94 to Crosstown: 31 minutes

South metro

Northbound 35W from County 42 to Crosstown: 12 minutes To downtown Minneapolis: 21 minutes.

Northbound Cedar Avenue from McAndrews to the Crosstown: 14 minutes

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

Northbound 169 from Canterbury Road to 494: 12 minutes

Eastbound Hwy. 212 from Eden Prairie Road to Crosstown: 6 minutes

Westbound 494 from Cedar Avenue to Hwy. 100: 12 minutes. Eastbound 494 from Hwy. 169 to 35W: 6 minutes

Westbound Crosstown from Cedar Avenue to Hwy. 169: 12 minutes Eastbound Crosstown from Hwy. 100 to Cedar Avenue: 13 minutes

East metro

Westbound 94 from Manning Avenue to downtown St. Paul: 17 minutes

Westbound 94 from 35E to the Lowry Hill Tunnel: 14 minutes.

Westbound Hwy. 36 from Edgerton Street to 35W: 6 minutes.

about the writer

Tim Harlow

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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.