New Cedar Grove Transit Station Opens In South Metro

The Metropolitan Council and Metro Transit celebrated the opening of the new Cedar Grove Transit Station, a station that allows the METRO Red Line to stay on Highway 77 and shaves about five minutes off the trip. Speakers included Eagan Mayor Mike Maguire, Council Member Steven Chavez, Dakota County Commissioner Tom Egan and Minnesota Valley Transit Authority Vice Chair Bill Droste (also mayor of Rosemount).

The Cedar Grove Transit Station adds a new passenger platform in the center of Highway 77, with an enclosed skyway connecting back to the existing station area on Nicols Road. Transit riders can use the skyway to get to the center platform and buses will serve the station without exiting the highway.

These changes will greatly improve travel times for METRO Red Line riders, as well as riders on some express routes on the State Highway 77/Cedar Avenue corridor. Previously, these buses must exit the highway, travel through the neighborhood on surface streets and then backtrack to re-enter the highway, which takes several minutes in each direction.

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