Cedar Grove Transit Station
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.
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 | ||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | March 20, 2010 (Regular service) June 22, 2013 (BRT service) | ||||||||||
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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. 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. Despite this upgrade, MVTA buses still exit and enter the freeway at Diffley Road to access the station.