Yes, those are orange road construction signs on westbound I-394 in downtown Minneapolis. MnDOT is picking them up this morning, but they will be going up again on Friday night when a two-week closure of the general traffic lanes on westbound I-394 between downtown Minneapolis and Golden Valley begins.
MnDOT will begin a concrete repair project at 10 p.m. and all traffic will be shifted onto the reversible portion of the carpool/toll lanes between I-94 and Hwy. 100. All eastbound lanes will remain open.
In addition to the westbound lane closures, a number of ramps also will close Friday. They include:
• Westbound I-394 to Penn Avenue
• Penn Avenue to westbound I-394
• Eastbound I-94 to westbound I-394
• Westbound I-94 to westbound I-394 (single lane)
This is in addition to work on Wayzata Blvd. between Theodore Wirth Parkway and Penn Avenue on the north side of I-394 and between France Avenue and Penn Avenue on the south side. Wayzata Blvd. on both the north and south side of I-394 will remain open while the work is done, but drivers should expect slow moving traffic and periodic lane closures, MnDOT says.
Starting Monday, Lyndale Avenue over Dunwoody Boulevard/Hennepin Avenue will close. Motorists will be detoured to Dunwoody Boulevard, Hennepin Avenue, 12th Street and Linden Avenue to bypass the closure, which will last through September.
