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A major freeway closure and transit service changes will make traveling in and near downtown Minneapolis more challenging this weekend.

The Minnesota Department of Transportation is closing Interstate 35W in both directions between I-94 and Highway 280 from 10 p.m. Friday through 5 a.m. Monday — one of several freeway closures planned in the Twin Cities this weekend.

And Metro Transit says buses are replacing Blue and Green Line trains in downtown Minneapolis starting Friday and continuing through the weekend.

MnDOT says the Interstate 35W closure near downtown Minneapolis is to allow crews to remove the Seventh and Eighth street bridge decks over the freeway near the Highway 55/Hiawatha Avenue interchange.

 along Hiawatha Avenue and its links to downtown.

Traffic on 35W will be detoured using Highway 280 and I-94.

Elsewhere in the Twin Cities metro area this weekend:

 in downtown Minneapolis is to allow crews to complete work on Hennepin Avenue, as well as make repairs to rails and pedestrian crossings.

The change from trains to buses is between Target Field and U.S. Bank Stadium during the day Friday, then expanding a bit farther east to the Stadium Village station (Green Line) and Franklin Avenue station (Blue Line) from 7 p.m. Friday through the weekend.

Light rail service in downtown Minneapolis is set to resume by 4 a.m. Monday.

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Andrew Krueger

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A major freeway closure and transit service changes will make traveling in and near downtown Minneapolis more challenging this weekend.


Freeway closures, transit changes planned in Twin Cities this weekend

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