Editing Fridley, Minnesota (section)

==Infrastructure and transportation==
[[File:Interstate 694 Fridley MN 2017.jpg|thumb|Interstate 694 looking West through Fridley]]

[[Interstate 694]] and Minnesota State Highways [[Minnesota State Highway 47|47]] and [[Minnesota State Highway 65|65]] are three of the main automobile routes in the city. East River Road is one of the oldest roads in the state as a Minnesota Territorial road.<ref name="Heim2004">{{cite book|author=Michael Heim|title=Exploring America's Highways: Minnesota Trip Trivia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qpdxhqewliAC&pg=PA8|date=March 2004|publisher=Exploring America's Highway|isbn=978-0-9744358-1-7|pages=8–}}</ref> It was part of the [[Red River Trails]] Woods trail. The [[I-694 Bridge]], joining Fridley to [[Brooklyn Center]], is the only crossing of the Mississippi River within the city.

[[File:Fridley MN Station 2017.jpg|thumb|Platform of the Fridley Northstar station looking South towards Minneapolis]]

The [[BNSF Railway]] main [[Northern Transcon|Northern transcontinental]] Twin Cities to Portland/Seattle double track line passes through Fridley as part of the [[Staples Subdivision]].<ref name="rail-volume">{{cite web|url=http://www.dot.state.mn.us/ofrw/maps/MNFreightRailroadMapMay2013Large.pdf |title=Minnesota Freight Railroad Map |author=Office of Freight and Commercial Vehicle Operations |publisher=Minnesota Department of Transportation |date=May 2013 |access-date=January 27, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140207074650/http://www.dot.state.mn.us/ofrw/maps/MNFreightRailroadMapMay2013Large.pdf |archive-date=February 7, 2014}}</ref><ref>[http://www.bnsf.com/ship-with-bnsf/maps-and-shipping-locations/rail-network-maps.html BNSF Rail Network Maps]</ref>  The [[Fridley (Metro Transit station)|Fridley Station]] is served by the [[Northstar Commuter Rail]] line running on the BNSF tracks into Minneapolis. The [[Amtrak]] [[Empire Builder]] passes through Fridley twice daily on this line, but does not stop in the city.<ref name="Timetable2">BNSF Northwest Division Timetable No. 2</ref> The massive BNSF Northtown Classification Yards are in the city.<ref name="Timetable2"/> The [[Minnesota Commercial Railway]] also serves Fridley, with a terminal warehouse there. 
[[File:BNSF Northtown Yard Fridley MN 2017.jpg|thumb|BNSF Northtown Classification Yard]]

The Mississippi River is non-navigable for barge traffic north of the [[Canadian Pacific Camden Place Rail Bridge]], but small boats can travel upstream to the [[Three Rivers Park District#Coon Rapids Dam Regional Park|Coon Rapids Dam]] without a portage. There is a landing for small boats in the river near Interstate 694 at the Anoka County Riverfront Regional Park.<ref>[http://www.anokacounty.us/794/Riverfront-Regional-Park Riverfront Regional Park] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180511080933/http://www.anokacounty.us/794/Riverfront-Regional-Park |date=May 11, 2018 }} Anoka County</ref>

The [[Anoka County–Blaine Airport]] serves the area and is in neighboring Blaine.