{"id":477541,"date":"2026-10-26T22:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T22:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/477541\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T22:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T22:36:09","slug":"txdot-warns-of-more-nightly-closures-on-i-35-heres-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/477541\/","title":{"rendered":"TxDOT warns of more nightly closures on I-35. Here’s when."},"content":{"rendered":"

The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) will begin nightly closures of Interstate 35 in a major Central Texas city this week. These closures are part of\u00a0TxDOT’s ongoing construction\u00a0of the I-35 expansion project in downtown Austin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

State Highway 71\/Ben White Boulevard to southbound I-35 flyovers will be closed nightly from Monday, October 26 through Thursday, October 29, from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m., for bridge column work. In addition, starting Monday, the right lane will be closed on southbound I-35 frontage road between 49th Street and 46th Street through early 2028.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Drivers on eastbound SH 71 can use the South Congress Avenue exit and turn onto the frontage road to access the I-35\u00a0mainlanes. Drivers on westbound SH 71 will use the Burleson Road\/Woodward Street exit and turn onto the frontage road to access the I-35 mainlanes, according to TxDOT.\u00a0<\/p>\n

From Tuesday, Oct. 27 to Wednesday, Oct. 28, northbound I-35 mainlanes between Slaughter Lane and William Cannon Drive will be closed nightly from midnight to 5 a.m., for work on elevated managed lanes. Drivers traveling on northbound I-35 can use the William Cannon Drive exit (228), continue on the northbound I-35 frontage road and use the next available entrance ramp for I-35.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Oct. 29, northbound and southbound I-35 mainlanes and frontage roads, between Lady Bird Lake and Holly Street will have rolling closures from 11 p.m. to 4 a.m., for utility line crossing. These closures are expected to last no more than 15 minutes at a time, per TxDOT.<\/p>\n

There will also be varying nightly lane closures with\u00a0mainlanes reduced to one lane in some areas of northbound and southbound I-35 between SH 71\/ Ben White Boulevard and SH 45 Southeast from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. between Sunday, Oct. 25 and Thursday, Oct. 29. Multiple entrance and exit ramps will be closed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In addition, nightly alternating lane closures will continue on the William Cannon Drive bridge at I-35 from Monday, Oct. 26 through Thursday from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m., for work on elevated managed lanes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I-35 construction closures and real time traffic alerts are now available through CTXGO’s website<\/a> and mobile app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) will begin nightly closures of Interstate 35 in a major Central Texas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,820,59494],"class_list":["post-477541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-mysastaff","tag-mysatranspo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477541","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=477541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}