I-35 Northbound Lane Closures Tonight: Airport Boulevard to 12th Street, 9 p.m. to 5 a.m., With the 12th Street Ramp Closed
TxDOT's My35 work returns to the downtown stretch of I-35 on Sunday night: varying lane closures on the northbound mainlanes between Airport Boulevard and 12th Street from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m., and the 12th Street entrance ramp closed with them.
AUSTIN — Drivers heading north through downtown Austin late Sunday night should plan around the My35 Capital Express construction zone. The Texas Department of Transportation's Austin district has posted varying nightly lane closures on northbound I-35 between Airport Boulevard and 12th Street for Sunday, November 8, running from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m.
The 12th Street entrance ramp is also closed during the work window, TxDOT's alert said. The closures are part of the multi-year Capital Express rebuild of the I-35 corridor through the center of the city — the nightly pattern of mainlane and ramp work that has become a standing feature of driving the corridor after dark.
The window is timed for the week's lightest traffic, but the segment is the one Austin drivers can least avoid: it carries the downtown exits and the split between the upper and lower decks just south of the closure area. Drivers heading north late tonight may find the frontage roads the steadier choice through the work zone, and anyone catching the closure near its 5 a.m. end should still expect a slow merge back to full lanes for the early commute.
TxDOT describes the closures as varying and nightly, so the pattern can repeat on following nights; the district posts each night's configuration on its own channels. Austin Capital News carries the alert as posted for Sunday night, and the Traffic Desk will file the week's I-35 pattern in the Monday morning drive file.
