After a two-week break, the Minnesota Department of Transportation is resuming a repaving project that will shut down southbound Interstate 35W this weekend through Bloomington and Burnsville.
Drivers will be detoured from 10 p.m. Friday through 5 a.m. Monday as crews work on the freeway between Interstates 494 and 35E. All ramps leading to southbound I-35W between 82nd Street and I-35E also will be closed starting at 9 p.m. Friday, MnDOT officials said.
MnDOT plans to close the southbound lanes of I-35W over two more weekends, on July 28-31 and Aug. 4-7.
Northbound lanes on that stretch of I-35W will remain open this weekend, though the E-ZPass lane will be closed, officials said.
But in a separate closure, northbound I-35W drivers will have to find an alternate route for the stretch between Crosstown Hwy. 62 and 40th Street in Minneapolis from midnight Friday to 6 p.m. Saturday. Crews need to remove a large crane used for the I-35W stormwater storage tank project to reduce flooding, said spokesman Jesse Johnson.
Motorists may encounter bottlenecks this weekend on Hwy. 169 in Bloomington and Edina. MnDOT will have overnight lane closures from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. Saturday through Tuesday, between Anderson Lakes Parkway and Valley View Road.
In the east metro this weekend, westbound Hwy. 36 will be reduced to one lane from 9 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Sunday, between Stillwater Boulevard in Stillwater and Edgerton Street in Little Canada.
