Cedar Avenue Scheduled for Closures

Cedar Avenue is scheduled to be closed from 10 p.m. Friday until 7 a.m. Saturday between 145th and 147th streets for water and sewer work, according to Dakota County.

Recommended detours are to use 140th and 150th (County Road 42) streets to route around the closure.

Other work coming soon:

• Week of May 21: Temporary lane closures could be needed to start up the new traffic signals at Cedar and County Road 42; the signals will flash red to act as a stop sign at various times.

• Early June: Construction is slated to being on County Road 42 and last a month; it is expected to have a "major impact" on traffic, according to the county.

• August: The Minnesota Department of Transportation is slated to start $7.5 million of work on Cedar Avenue from 138th Street in Apple Valley up to the Minnesota River in Bloomington.

Construction on Cedar . The county project to accommodate a bus rapid transit system, a station-to-station line that would have buses running from Lakeville to a park-and-ride near the Mall of America and back every 15 minutes during the week.

The goal of bus rapid transit, which also is recommended or planned for other corridors besides Cedar, is to better and more quickly connect the southern suburbs with Minneapolis and St. Paul.

It was recently announced that the original November 2012 launch date will be pushed back to at least 2013 due to discrepancies over bus station designs.

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