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a 230-unit apartment. Retail stores will be developed between the parking ramp and Sunwood <br />Drive. Municipal Plaza is just across Sunwood Drive from the retail spaces. The Ramsey <br />Station enjoys a central location in The COR at Ramsey. Unlike other Northstar stations, <br />Ramsey Station is visible from a major highway. <br />Commuter Service <br />The Ramsey Station attracts riders from the area served by TH-10. The station has 350 <br />dedicated parking spaces. Prior to service by the Northstar train, the station was served by the <br />Regional Express Bus Route 856, which offered direct service to downtown Minneapolis. The <br />service operated only on weekdays with four southbound morning trips to Minneapolis and four <br />northbound trips to Ramsey during the afternoon commute. Bus ridership averaged about 110 <br />daily weekday trips. Since Northstar service began there have been approximately 129 inbound <br />and outbound riders per day, as shown in Table 7-1. Inbound and outbound weekend service <br />attracted about 19 inbound and 17 outbound riders per day. <br />Table 7-1 <br />NORTHSTAR COMMUTER RAIL RIDERSHIP BY STATION; 2012 <br />Station <br />Big Lake <br />Elk River <br />Ramsey <br />Anoka <br />Coon Rapids <br />Fridley <br />Weekday Weekend <br />Inbound Outbound Inbound Outbound <br />Source: NCDA and Metro Transit. <br />360 <br />370 <br />129 <br />250 <br />250 <br />100 <br />290 <br />340 <br />129 <br />250 <br />230 <br />90 <br />200 <br />130 <br />19 <br />90 <br />120 <br />80 <br />200 <br />125 <br />17 <br />85 <br />115 <br />75 <br />Ramsey Station is served by five daily inbound trains during the morning commute period, and <br />one inbound evening train, as shown in Figure 7-1. There is one morning outbound train to <br />Ramsey, and five evening outbound trains for a total of 12 trains per day. Inbound scheduled <br />travel times are 34 minutes. Outbound travel times are 30 minutes, except the train that does not <br />stop in Fridley, which takes 28 minutes. <br />Figure 7-1 <br />NORTHSTAR SCHEDULE — RAMSEY STATION <br />Inbound <br />Act / <br />r s O' <br />/a* p<'4' <br />AM <br />888 5:01 511 5 16 5:22 5 26 5 34 5:50 <br />888 5:51 6:01 6:06 6:12 6:16 6:24 6:40 <br />888 <br />888 <br />6:21 <br />6:51 <br />631 <br />7:01 <br />6 36 <br />7:06 <br />6:42 <br />7:12 <br />6 46 <br />7:16 <br />6 54 <br />7:24 <br />7:10 <br />7:40 <br />888 7:21 7:31 7:36 7:42 7:46 7:54 8:10 <br />PM <br />888 5:06 5'16 5'21 5:27 531 5'39 5:55 <br />Outbound <br />4m p� tl'" <br />�� �.g E <br />AM <br />888 6 13 6:26 6 34 6:38 6:43 6 49 7:02 <br />888 3 57 <br />4:10 <br />4 18 4:22 4:27 4 33 1 4:46 <br />888 <br />888 <br />427 4:40 448 <br />457 5:10 518 <br />4:52 <br />5:22 <br />4:57 <br />5:27 <br />503 1 5:16 <br />5 33 1 5:46 <br />888 <br />888 <br />527 - 546 <br />6'15 6:28 6'36 <br />5:50 <br />6:40 <br />5:55 <br />6:45 <br />601 1 6:14 <br />6'51 1 7:04 <br />7-2 <br />