Highway 5 between St. Paul, Fort Snelling closing

Highway 5 closing
Highway 5 closing
Courtesy MnDOT

A key link between St. Paul and the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport will be closed this weekend.

• The Minnesota Department of Transportation is closing Highway 5 starting about 1 a.m. Saturday.

• The bridge over the Mississippi River there is being resurfaced and had been narrowed to a single lane in each direction this spring. Crews are pouring a new deck on the eastbound lanes of Highway 5.

• The link between St. Paul and Fort Snelling is expected to reopen Saturday afternoon.

• The reconstruction project will run for another year.

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