History
The construction of Interstate 394 was authorized in 1968. Funding became available after the canceled Interstate 335 freeway project in 1978. Interstate 335 had been planned to be a northern loop around downtown Minneapolis that would have passed through northeast Minneapolis. The money was substituted to the Interstate 394 project. Construction of Interstate 394 occurred mainly in the 1980s, starting at the western terminus in Minnetonka and opening in sections toward downtown Minneapolis throughout the late 1980s. The entire route of Interstate 394 was officially opened in 1991.
A former lane drop of I-394 at the Penn Avenue exit was eliminated in 2000.
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