{"id":470851,"date":"2026-10-19T20:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T20:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/470851\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T20:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T20:32:09","slug":"txdot-extends-nightly-closure-on-i-35-in-austin-heres-where","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/470851\/","title":{"rendered":"TxDOT extends nightly closure on I-35 in Austin. Here’s where"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has extended a nightly closure for another two days on Interstate 35 in Austin.\u00a0TxDOT first announced that the State Highway 45 Southeast flyover to northbound I-35 would be closed last week until Sunday, October 18, but in a new update<\/a> the state agency revealed the closure would continue on Monday, October 19 and Tuesday, October 20.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The SH 45 SE flyover will be closed from 8\u00a0p.m. to 5 a.m. both Monday and Tuesday nights as work continues on TxDOT’s massive I-35 expansion project in Austin<\/a>. In the state\u00a0agency’s initial X post,\u00a0TxDOT encouraged drivers to follow detour signs as shown in a traffic map.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Instead of taking the flyover, nightly drivers coming from State Highway 45 can take the I-35 access road south and turn around at Cabelas Drive to enter northbound I-35 at Cabela’s Drive, per TxDOT.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This October marks two years since construction<\/a> crews first started work on I-35’s reconstruction and expansion near downtown Austin, slated to continue over the next 10 years.\u00a0 The I-35 Capital Express South portion of the project\u00a0will add two high-occupancy-vehicle (HOV) managed lanes in each direction along I-35 between SH 71\/Ben White Boulevard and SH 45 Southeast, according to TxDOT’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In addition, the project will include a southbound I-35 bypass lane, newly constructed entrance and exit ramps and added pedestrian and bicycle paths. Depending on the weather, construction on\u00a0the project is expected to be finished by late 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has extended a nightly closure for another two days on Interstate 35…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,2108,820,59494],"class_list":["post-470851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-mysaaustin","tag-mysastaff","tag-mysatranspo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470851","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=470851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}