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. 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. New "in-line" access was designed with a station platform in the freeway median and a pedestrian bridge over the northbound lane of Cedar Avenue, 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

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