{"id":396710,"date":"2026-08-03T20:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T20:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/396710\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T20:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T20:06:08","slug":"check-out-several-upcoming-i-35-northbound-southbound-closures-central-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/396710\/","title":{"rendered":"Check out several upcoming I-35 northbound, southbound closures | Central Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple lane closures are planned nightly on I-35 through Aug. 10 for roadway maintenance as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.txdot.gov\/mymobility35\/projects\/capex-central\/ladybird-lake.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lady Bird Lake segment<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.txdot.gov\/mymobility35\/projects\/capex-central.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I-35 Capital Express Central Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What you need to know<\/p>\n<p>According to the Texas Department of Transportation, the northbound I-35 mainlanes between Woodland Avenue and Holly Street will be closed nightly from 9 p.m.-5 a.m. Aug. 2-Aug. 6 and again Aug. 9. Drivers can use the Woodland Avenue exit 232B to access the frontage road, and use the Riverside Drive bypass lane to reenter the mainlanes.<\/p>\n<p>Northbound detour traffic between Riverside Drive and Holly Street will be reduced to one lane on the bypass.<\/p>\n<p>TxDOT officials said the bypass lane will be closed from 8 p.m.-9 p.m. each night to prepare for the detour. During this hour, frontage road traffic can take the Oltorf Street entrance ramp to continue north.<\/p>\n<p>What else?<\/p>\n<p>The southbound I-35 mainlanes between Riverside Drive and Oltorf Street will also be reduced to one lane nightly from Aug. 4 at 9 p.m. to Aug. 6 at 5 a.m., then again from Aug. 9 at 9 p.m. to Aug. 10 at 5 a.m. Multiple entrance and exit ramps will also be closed, per the agency.<\/p>\n<p>Some context<\/p>\n<p>The $4.5 billion I-35 Capital Express Central Project is slated to bring two nontolled high-occupancy vehicle lanes between Hwy. 290 and Hwy. 71, remove upper decks along I-35, sink sections of the roadway by about 25 feet and widen the corridor with more lanes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Multiple lane closures are planned nightly on I-35 through Aug. 10 for roadway maintenance as part of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,40905,139327,134,37481,139331,133,23188,139322,25597,139324,83808,139325,139318,139329,139316,139309,58756,27984,139332,139328,139312,139326,71999,139319,38426,139323,139311,139313,139330,139321,139310,139314,139317,133020,139315,9237,139320,56568,49589,271,139333,57162],"class_list":["post-396710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-commuting","tag-austin-drivers","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-infrastructure","tag-austin-mobility-project","tag-austin-news","tag-austin-road-closures","tag-austin-road-work","tag-austin-traffic","tag-austin-traffic-alerts","tag-austin-transportation-news","tag-capital-express-central","tag-central-texas-traffic","tag-highway-maintenance-austin","tag-holly-street","tag-i-35-austin","tag-i-35-capital-express-central-project","tag-i-35-construction","tag-i-35-corridor-improvements","tag-i-35-detour-routes","tag-i-35-detours","tag-i-35-expansion-project","tag-i-35-frontage-road","tag-i-35-infrastructure-project","tag-i-35-lane-closures","tag-i-35-nightly-closures","tag-i-35-roadway-maintenance","tag-i-35-traffic-delays","tag-i-35-travel-advisory","tag-i-35-updates","tag-lady-bird-lake-segment","tag-northbound-i-35-closure","tag-oltorf-street","tag-riverside-drive","tag-southbound-i-35-lane-reduction","tag-texas-department-of-transportation","tag-texas-highway-construction","tag-texas-road-conditions","tag-texas-transportation","tag-txdot","tag-txdot-traffic-updates","tag-woodland-avenue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}