Car fire clears in Lino Lake, traffic recovering

A flurry of wrecks just after 8 a.m. are making for a tough commute for the latter portion of the rush hour.

July 24, 2018 at 1:58PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

A flurry of wrecks just after 8 a.m. are making for a tough commute for the latter portion of the rush hour.

A car fire that led to a 2 mile backup on southbound I-35E at Main Street in Lino Lakes has cleared. With all lanes open, traffic has recovered and is back to freeway speeds. This is what it looked like earlier this morning.

(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Currently, a broken down dump truck is leading to this stackup on westbound Crosstown at Lyndale Avenue.

(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Elsewhere it's just lots and lots of cars that are making for a longer drive than normal. At 8:30 a.m., pockets of congestion have bogged down the drive:

Southbound I-35W from 95th Avenue to I-694

Hwy. 610 westbound across the Mississippi River

Both directions of I-494 from Minnetonka Boulevard to Hwy. 55 Look for a crash on the northbound side at County Road 6.

Eastbound I-94 from Hwy. 241 down to I-494/694/94 in Maple Grove.

Westbound I-94 from Hwy. 280 to the Lowry Hill Tunnel. Look for a crash near Hiawatha Avenue.

(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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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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