Cedar Grove | |||||||||||
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 Cedar Grove Station bus circle, waiting area, and skyway to central island platform. | |||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 44°48′45″N 93°13′06″W / 44.81252°N 93.21835°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Minnesota Valley Transit Authority | ||||||||||
| Line(s) |  Red Line | ||||||||||
| Platforms | Online island platform | ||||||||||
| Connections | 440, 442, 444, 445, 475U | ||||||||||
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| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | March 20, 2010 (Regular service)[1] June 22, 2013 (BRT service) | ||||||||||
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The Cedar Grove Transit Station 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.
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.
The lengthy, indirect routing was seen as lowering the potential ridership of the Red Line. During planning for the Orange Line, elected officials saw the Cedar Grove Transit Station as a design to avoid and a danger to the success of the Orange Line. Ultimately, the Burnsville Heart of the City station was built offline from I-35W but it serves as the terminus of the route and detours fewer customers than the Cedar Grove Transitation design.[2]
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 20, 2017.[4][5] Despite this upgrade, MVTA buses still exit and enter the freeway at Diffley Road to access the station.
- ^ "This Week Live | Canada's Late Night Show | Official".
- ^ Van Berkel, Jessie (August 21, 2015). "Concerns arise over Burnsville station location for Orange Line BRT". Star Tribune. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
- ^ "Concept G - Reduced" (PDF). Minnesota Department of Transportation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-06-03. 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.
- ^ Bornhoft, William (2 June 2017). "New Cedar Grove Transit Station Opens In South Metro". Apple Valley-Rosemount, MN Patch. Retrieved 27 September 2024.