The two righthand lanes of I-35W curve a sharp right east where it runs side by side with I-94 and US 52 for less than one mile (1.6 km), allowing drivers to exchange highways. Three lanes then split north onto MN 65 (Old US 65), which exits into downtown. I-35W swerves slightly northeast immediately south of downtown to avoid the Washburn-Fair Oaks Mansion District. I-35W and MN 62 split as two lanes of I-35W turn northbound toward downtown Minneapolis, where it adds back a third lane and then later a fourth and a fifth lane at the 46th Street onramp. I-35W continues northbound into Richfield, where it turns east and joins with Minnesota State Highway 62 (MN 62) for about 0.25 miles (0.40 km) in what is locally known as the Crosstown Commons. At the Bloomington– Richfield city boundary, I-35W has a cloverleaf interchange with I-494 at exits 9A and 9B. It then crosses the Minnesota River into Bloomington. I-35W maintains a northbound direction in Burnsville with two lanes and adds a third lane at Burnsville Parkway. While I-35E takes a northeasterly path into Saint Paul, I-35W heads north into Minneapolis. The southern terminus of I-35W is at Burnsville, where I-35 splits into I-35E and I-35W. I-35W approaching downtown Minneapolis from the south I-35 also splits into I-35E and I-35W in Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas, for similar reasons as the I-35 split in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area. In the case of I-35 in the Twin Cities area, since neither branch is clearly the main route and both branches return to a unified Interstate beyond the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, officials at the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) have allowed the suffixes of E and W in Minnesota to remain in the present day.
On every other Interstate nationwide, these directional suffixes have been phased out by redesignating the suffixed route numbers with a loop or spur route number designation (such as I-270 in Maryland, which was once I-70S) or, in some cases, were assigned a different route number (such as I-76, which was once I-80S). Highway 8 (US 8) northeast of Minneapolis and old US 65 south of Minneapolis that have since been removed from the United States Numbered Highway System.ĭuring the early years of the Interstate Highway System, branching Interstates with directional suffixes, such as N, S, E, and W, were common nationwide. It runs through the city of Minneapolis before rejoining with I-35E to reform I-35 in Columbus near Forest Lake. Traveling north, I-35 splits at Burnsville, and the I-35W route runs north for 41 miles (66 km), carrying its own separate sequence of exit numbers. It is one of two through routes for I-35 through the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, the other being I-35E through downtown Saint Paul. Interstate 35W ( I-35W) is an Interstate Highway in the US state of Minnesota, passing through downtown Minneapolis. I-494 / MN 5 in Bloomington and Richfield.
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