Austin Traffic Thursday: I-35 Overnight Closures Run One More Night, and the SH 71 Flyovers Stay Shut Until 6 A.M.
Thursday night is the last night of this week's overnight pattern on I-35 — and the last night of the SH 71 flyover closures. The morning drive is clear of scheduled work; the cones come out again at 8 p.m.
AUSTIN — The Thursday morning drive runs on open roads, but the overnight map Austin drivers have lived with all week gets one more run tonight. Thursday is the final night of the Monday-through-Thursday closure pattern in the TxDOT Austin district's report for the week of November 11, and it is also the last night of the SH 71 flyover closure stretch that began on Sunday.
The flyovers come first, because they close earliest in the evening pattern's final act: the eastbound and westbound SH 71 ramps to southbound I-35 are closed nightly through tonight, Thursday, November 12, from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m., for bridge column work. TxDOT's detour is Ben White Boulevard to reach southbound I-35. Separately on SH 71, the westbound right lane is closed between Woodward Street and I-35 from 9 p.m. Thursday to 3 a.m. Friday.
On I-35 itself in Travis County, tonight's list is the week's familiar one: the northbound auxiliary lane closed from Oltorf Street to the Woodland Avenue exit, 9 p.m. to 3 a.m.; the northbound frontage road's left lane closed from Hermitage Drive to the Rundberg on-ramp, 9 p.m. to 5 a.m., with that entrance ramp closed; the southbound two left lanes closed from Powell Lane to U.S. 290, 10 p.m. to 5 a.m.; the southbound frontage right lane closed across Stassney Lane and the southbound right lane closed from William Cannon Drive to Chaparral Road, both 8 p.m. to 5 a.m.; and the northbound left lane closed under Stassney Lane as needed, 9 p.m. to 5 a.m.
The rest of the overnight map: U.S. 183's southbound Cameron Road exit is closed 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. with the frontage left lane; MoPac runs single-lane closures in both directions between Davis Lane and South Bay Lane, 8 p.m. to 6 a.m.; Texas 130 alternates closures of the Parmer Lane (436) and U.S. 290 (437) exits, 9 p.m. to 5 a.m., with main lanes reduced to one; and in Hays County the southbound right lane closes from the FM 1327 entrance ramp to Exit 220 in Buda from 9 p.m. Thursday to 5 a.m. Friday, with the entrance ramp closed. After tonight, the Monday–Thursday pattern rests until next week's report — the Friday morning drive starts the weekend with the lanes back.
