Austin Traffic Thursday Night: I-35 Closures Run One Last Night in the Weekly Pattern
Thursday night is the final night of this week's Monday-to-Thursday I-35 closure pattern in Travis County - southbound left lanes at US 290, frontage work at Stassney and William Cannon, and a closed Rundberg on-ramp, most of it between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m.
AUSTIN - Drivers crossing Austin on I-35 after dark Thursday get the last night of this week's recurring closure pattern, according to the Texas Department of Transportation's weekly Austin district report. The heaviest item is southbound: the two left lanes from Powell Lane to US 290 close from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m., the same Monday-to-Thursday window that has run all week.
The frontage roads take their share. Southbound's right lane across Stassney Lane closes from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m., and the southbound right lane from William Cannon Drive to Chaparral Road closes on the same hours. On the northbound side, the auxiliary lane from Oltorf Street to the Woodland Avenue exit closes from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m., the left lane under Stassney and the left lane from US 290 to Rutherford Lane each close from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m., and the northbound frontage left lane from Hermitage Drive to the Rundberg Lane on-ramp closes from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. with the ramp itself closed. The eastbound William Cannon right-turn lane at I-35 is also closed from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m.
Because these are Monday-to-Thursday patterns, Friday night is a different sheet: the separate southbound mainlane closure between William Cannon and Slaughter Lane that this station filed this morning belongs to Friday, not tonight, and tonight's list should not be read as covering it.
The practical advice is the week's usual one, one final time: late-evening trips across town run smoother on the frontage roads where they remain open, or on MoPac and US 183, while the I-35 work zones are coned. All of Thursday night's closures lift by 5 a.m. Friday.
