Everything I've read indicates that an inline station would be built "between American Boulevard and 82nd St", which to me indicates that one would access the vertical circulation only from the south side of the American Boulevard bridge. How that works for people connecting to/from eastbound American Boulevard buses I have no friggin clue. HAWK in the middle of the American Boulevard bridge?I can't imagine an orange line station that's offline as mentioned in here. Wouldn't it be quite the stroadwalk from 35W/American Blvd to Penn/American Blvd? Hopefully that corridor can be tamed. Maybe if Southtown was redeveloped, this stretch of American Blvd could become American Multiway Boulevard with businesses and mixed use fronting the right of way.
There's actually a surprising amount of transit activity in this area. Granted, it's an incomprehensible bowl of spaghetti, and probably lacks wayfinding signage entirely, but one could theoretically catch the 4 and 535 heading north/south, as well as three different suburban locals (538, 539, 542) basically right there at the corner of Penn & American or within the southtown complex.
EDIT: Some documentos http://www.dot.state.mn.us/metro/projec ... /docs.html