Cedar Grove (MVTA station)

Cedar Grove
Coordinates 44°48′45″N 93°13′06″W / 44.81252°N 93.21835°W / 44.81252; -93.21835Coordinates: 44°48′45″N 93°13′06″W / 44.81252°N 93.21835°W / 44.81252; -93.21835
Owned by Minnesota Valley Transit Authority
Line(s)
   Red Line
Connections 437, 438, 440, 444, 445, 472, 475U, 491A, 492
Construction
Disabled access Yes
History
Opened March 20, 2010 (Regular Service)[1]
June 22, 2013 (BRT Service)
Services
Preceding station   Metro   Following station
Red Line

The Cedar Grove Transit Station[2] is a transit facility that is located in the vicinity of the Cedar Grove community of Eagan, Minnesota, that opened on March 20, 2010. A video has been released showing off the station.[3][Note 1] This is the third southbound station on the METRO Red Line.

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

New "in-line" access has been designed with a station platform in the freeway median, and a pedestrian bridge connecting it to the original station area.[4] The platform layout will bear a similarity to the 46th Street station on Interstate 35W in Minneapolis, which is about 11 miles north via the highway. Buses will 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, with an opening expected in 2017.[5]

Bus connections

Note: Route 438 operates on-demand service to Blackhawk Park & Ride (for connections to Route 480). Route 440V trips make connections to Metro Transit Route's 22 (Minneapolis/Brooklyn Center) and 515 (Richfield Commons/Southdale Mall) @ VA Medical Center. BlueXpress operates service directly to Shakopee and Prior Lake on Route 491 via terminal letter "A". BlueXpress also operates reverse commute service to Downtown Minneapolis on both Route's 491A and 492.

See also

References

  1. ↑
  2. ↑ BRT Questions and Answers
  3. ↑ Cedar Grove Christmas Light Show
  4. ↑ "Concept G - Reduced" (PDF). Minnesota Department of Transportation. Retrieved 2016-04-29.
  5. ↑ Moore, Janet (2016-04-28). "Red Line bus service, which links MOA to south suburbs, to get $15M tune-up". Star Tribune. Retrieved 2016-04-29.
  6. 1 2 http://www.bluexpressbus.com/documents/current_schedule.pdf

Notes

  1. ↑ Right click on Reference 3 link to download video file of Christmas lights on Cedar Grove station.

External links

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