Cedar Grove (MVTA station)
Cedar Grove | |||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 44°48′45″N 93°13′06″W / 44.81252°N 93.21835°WCoordinates: 44°48′45″N 93°13′06″W / 44.81252°N 93.21835°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Minnesota Valley Transit Authority | ||||||||||
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| Connections | 437, 438, 440, 444, 445, 472, 475U, 491A, 492 | ||||||||||
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| Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened |
March 20, 2010 (Regular Service)[1] June 22, 2013 (BRT Service) | ||||||||||
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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. 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.[3] 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.[4]
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.
- Route 437 (Kennebec / Blue Cross-Blue Shield / Eagan Transit Station)
- Route 438 (Rahn Road / Cliff Lake Road / Blackhawk / Thomas Center Drive)
- Route 440 (VA Medical Center / Highway 77 - Cedar Ave / Nichols Road / Palomino Hills / County Road 38 / Minnesota Zoo / Johnny Cake Ridge Road / 140th Street Station / Pennock Ave / 147th Street Station / Garret Ave / Southport Shopping Center / Apple Valley Transit Station)
- Route 444 (Mall of America / Highway 77 / Highway 13 / Burnsville Transit Station / Travelers Trail / Heart of the City / Burnsville Parkway / County Road 5 / Burnsville Center / County Road 42 / Savage)
- Route 445 (Yankee Doodle Road / Blue Cross Road / Donald Ave / Coachman Oaks / Eagan Transit Station / Duckwood Drive / Eagan Town Center / Thomson Reuters)
- Route 472 (Downtown Minneapolis / Lake Street I-35W Station / Blackhawk)
- Route 475U (Downtown Minneapolis / Lake Street I-35W Station / Highway 77 - "Cedar Ave" / University of Minnesota (Coffman, Anderson, Wiley & Cooke) / Ridder Arena / TCF Bank Stadium / Stadium Village METRO Green Line LRT Station / Minnesota Zoo / Apple Valley)
- Route 491A [5] (Downtown Minneapolis / Lake Street I-35W Station / Highway 77 - "Cedar Ave" / Southbridge Transit Station / Eagle Creek Park and Ride / Dakotah Parkway)
- Route 492 [5] (Downtown Minneapolis / Lake Street I-35W Station / Highway 77 - "Cedar Ave")
See also
References
- ↑
- ↑ BRT Questions and Answers
- ↑ "Concept G - Reduced" (PDF). Minnesota Department of Transportation. Retrieved 2016-04-29.
- ↑ 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.
- 1 2 http://www.bluexpressbus.com/documents/current_schedule.pdf