Cedar Grove Transit Station

The Cedar Grove Transit Station[2] is a transit facility in Eagan, Minnesota. It serves the Minnesota Valley Transit Authority bus system and the Metro Red Line bus rapid transit system. It opened March 20, 2010 in the Cedar Grove community.

For the station in Boston, see Cedar Grove station.
Cedar Grove
Coordinates44°48′45″N 93°13′06″W
Owned byMinnesota Valley Transit Authority
Line(s)  Red Line 
PlatformsOnline island platform
Connections438, 440, 442, 444, 445, 472, 475U, 491A, 492
Construction
Disabled accessYes
History
OpenedMarch 20, 2010 (Regular service)[1]
June 22, 2013 (BRT service)
Services
Preceding station Metro Following station
Mall of America
Terminus
 Red Line 140th Street
toward Apple Valley

The station was built adjacent to Cedar Avenue freeway (Minnesota State Highway 77), but there was not any direct access from the freeway to the station for buses. Red Line Buses had to exit the freeway at Diffley Road, travel up Nicols Road to the station, pick up passengers, then double back along Nicols Road and Diffley Road to get back on the freeway, a maneuver that added five to ten minutes for each trip.

New "in-line" access was designed with a station platform in the freeway median and a pedestrian bridge connecting it to the original station area.[3] The platform layout bears a similarity to the 46th Street station on Interstate 35W in Minneapolis, which is about 11 miles north via the highway. Buses perform a "crossover" maneuver to have left-hand running around the platform, which is necessary since Red Line buses only have doors on the right-hand side. A groundbreaking ceremony for the $15 million station upgrade was held on April 28, 2016, which opened on May 20th, 2017.[4] Despite this upgrade, MVTA buses still exit and enter the freeway at Diffley Road to access the station.

Bus connections

Station notes

Route 438 operates on-demand service to Blackhawk Park & Ride (for connections to Route 480).
Route 440 "V" terminal trips make connections to Metro Transit Route's 22 (Minneapolis/Brooklyn Center) and 515 (Richfield Commons/Southdale Mall) @ VA Medical Center.
Route's 491 & 492 trips serve Shakopee and Prior Lake.

See also

References
  2. BRT Questions and Answers
  3. "Concept G - Reduced" (PDF). Minnesota Department of Transportation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-06-03. Retrieved 2016-04-29.
  4. https://patch.com/minnesota/applevalley-rosemount/new-cedar-grove-transit-station-opens-south-metro
  5. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-11-05. Retrieved 2013-11-05.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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