Interstate 35

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Interstate 35 Primary Interstate Length: 1565 mi (2518 km) Major cities/towns: Laredo, TX San Antonio, TX Austin, TX Waco, TX Dallas, TX Oklahoma City, OK Wichita, KS Kansas City KS, MO Des Moines, IA Minneapolis, MN St. Paul, MN Duluth, MN Established:   Direction: South-North Northern Terminus: Duluth, MN Southern Terminus: Laredo, TX States traversed: Texas Oklahoma Kansas Missouri Iowa Minnesota INTERSTATE JUNCTIONS JUNCTION EXIT # Mexican Border TX 0 I-10 TX 158 I-20 TX 418 (I-35E) I-30 TX 427-428 (I-35E) I-40 OK 126-128 I-44 OK 133-138 I-70 MO 3 I-29 MO 4-8 I-80 IA 72-87 I-90 MN 13 I-94 MN 107 (I-35E) Minnesota State Highway 61 MN 259 Legend   deleted (no longer in system)   unconstructed   closed   crossing with no access   begin/end concurrency, bold route is carried through   a bold route on white background indicates termini. BROWSE STATE HWYS Prev Next

Interstate 35 (often abbreviated I-35) is an interstate highway running north-south in the central United States. It stretches from Laredo, Texas on the U.S.-Mexico border to Duluth, Minnesota at Minnesota State Highway 61 (London Road) and 26th Avenue East. Many interstates used to have splits or spurs indicated with suffixed letters (N/S/E/W), but I-35 is the only one that still has such divisions. In two stretches, the highway splits into Interstate 35E (Dallas and St. Paul) and Interstate 35W (Fort Worth and Minneapolis). In both cases, the exit numbers follow I-35E, but everything else gives the two routes equal status.

Contents 1 Length 2 Major cities along the route 3 Intersections with other Interstates (from South to North) 4 Spur routes 5 Notes 5.1 Paseo Bridge Improvements 6 External links

Length

Miles	km	state
505	813	Texas
235	378	Oklahoma
234	377	Kansas
114	183	Missouri
218	351	Iowa
259	416	Minnesota
1565	2518	Total

Major cities along the route

• Laredo, Texas
• San Antonio, Texas
• Austin, Texas
• Waco, Texas
• Dallas, Texas (I-35E)
• Fort Worth, Texas (I-35W)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
• Wichita, Kansas
• Kansas City, Missouri
• Des Moines, Iowa
• Albert Lea, Minnesota
• Minneapolis, Minnesota (I-35W)
• Saint Paul, Minnesota (I-35E)
• Duluth, Minnesota

Intersections with other Interstates (from South to North)

• Interstate 10 in San Antonio, Texas
• Interstate 37 in San Antonio, Texas
• Interstate 35 splits into I-35E and I-35W in Hillsboro, Texas
• Interstate 20 in Dallas and in Fort Worth, Texas
• Interstate 30 in Dallas and in Fort Worth, Texas
• Interstate 45 in Dallas, Texas (via I-30 in the downtown Mixmaster)
• I-35E and I-35W rejoin in Denton, Texas
• Interstate 40 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
• Interstate 44 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
• Interstate 70 in Kansas City, Missouri
• Interstate 29 in Kansas City, Missouri
• Interstate 80 in Des Moines, Iowa
• Interstate 90 in Albert Lea, Minnesota
• Interstate 35 splits into I-35E and I-35W in Burnsville, Minnesota
• Interstate 94 in Minneapolis and in Saint Paul, Minnesota
• I-35E and I-35W rejoin in Forest Lake, Minnesota

Spur routes

• Dallas, Texas - I-635
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - I-235
• Wichita, Kansas - I-235
• Spur to Wichita, Kansas and Salina, Kansas - I-135 (see below)
• Spur to Topeka, Kansas - I-335 (part of the Kansas Turnpike)
• Kansas City, Missouri - I-435, I-635
• Des Moines, Iowa - I-235
• Duluth, Minnesota to Superior, Wisconsin - I-535

While numbered as loop routes for I-94, routes I-494 and I-694 in Minneapolis/St. Paul serve as loops for I-35 as well.

• Cancelled: Minneapolis, Minnesota - I-335

	edit Three-digit Interstates from Interstate 35
I-35E	Minnesota - Texas
I-35W	Minnesota - Texas
I-135	Kansas
I-235	Kansas - Oklahoma - Iowa
I-335	Kansas
I-435	Missouri-Kansas
I-535	Minnesota-Wisconsin
I-635	Kansas-Missouri - Texas
past/future	I-335: Minnesota

Notes

• When I-35 ends at Laredo, Texas, Mexico Highway 85 begins at Nuevo Laredo, on the other side of the Rio Grande.

• In Austin, Texas, elevated express lanes were constructed on either side of the original freeway. Prior to this expansion, this section included an at-grade railroad crossing, which is extremely unusual for a freeway.

• I-35 splits up into I-35W and I-35E in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area. The official mile markers follow I-35E through Dallas -- I-35W, which is 85 miles in length, carries its own mileage from Hillsboro to Denton, as though it were an x35 loop.

• I-135, which branches off in Wichita, Kansas, is 95 miles (153 km) long. It carried the designation I-35W until the 1980s, despite never rejoining the main line of I-35. It terminates in Salina, Kansas at the intersection with Interstate 70 (though the controlled-access freeway continues north as US 81).

• In Kansas, all of I-335 and I-35 between Emporia and the Oklahoma border are toll roads (the Kansas Turnpike).

• At Medford, Minnesota, the on/off ramps lead to roundabouts rather than standard cross intersections. This is the first site in the state linked to a major highway to use roundabouts.

• Interstate 335 was planned as an additional bypass of the Twin Cities; that road was never built. It would have connected I-35W north of downtown Minneapolis westward to I-94 to ease congestion on the Lowry Hill Tunnel on I-94 (but studies later showed that the new freeway would actually have put more traffic in the tunnel). The eastern terminus of I-335 was to be where the Johnson St exit is now on I-35W north of downtown Minneapolis, and the interchange design there is unusual for a surface street, indicating that I-335 did get off the ground slightly before being killed in the 1970s.

• I-35 splits again into I-35W and I-35E in the Minneapolis/Saint Paul, Minnesota area. At one sharp turn in I-35W near the junction with I-94, it is advised to slow to 35 mph (55 km/h) (although many drivers are able to maintain the speed limit of 55 mph (90 km/h)). Additionally, it is not possible to go from westbound I-94 to northbound I-35W or from southbound I-35W to eastbound I-94 without resorting to surface streets.

• On I-35E in Minnesota between Minnesota State Highway 5 and Interstate 94, in both directions, trucks weighing more than 9,000 lbs (4,082 kg) are banned from the freeway, and the speed limit drops to 45 mph (70 km/h) but it is rarely obeyed.

• I-35 is part of the Avenue of the Saints between Clear Lake, Iowa, and St. Paul. A four-lane link has been completed between Clear Lake and Interstate 380 in Waterloo, Iowa.

Paseo Bridge Improvements

On September 1, 2005, MoDOT reopened the Paseo Bridge over the Missouri River in Kansas City, Missouri after completing a six-month rehabilitation project ahead of schedule. However, the rehab project is only a short-term fix; MoDOT is in the planning process of devising an eight-lane crossing for the interstate, either by building a duplicate bridge to house one direction of traffic or a new bridge or bridges. The project is backed by USD$50 million in funding procured by Senator Kit Bond in the 2005 Transportation Bill.

External links

• Kansas City Star's "I-35 Odyssey, A Summer Travel Series"
• Highway History - A Look at the History of the Federal Highway Administration

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