diff --git a/modules/angular2/router.ts b/modules/angular2/router.ts
index e47435e654..8e938a4b28 100644
--- a/modules/angular2/router.ts
+++ b/modules/angular2/router.ts
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ export {CanActivate} from './src/router/lifecycle_annotations';
 export {Instruction, ComponentInstruction} from './src/router/instruction';
 export {Url} from './src/router/url_parser';
 export {OpaqueToken, Type} from 'angular2/angular2';
+export {ROUTE_DATA} from './src/router/route_data';
 
 import {LocationStrategy} from './src/router/location_strategy';
 import {HTML5LocationStrategy} from './src/router/html5_location_strategy';
diff --git a/modules/angular2/src/router/route_config_decorator.ts b/modules/angular2/src/router/route_config_decorator.ts
index badeba28c0..ba518e6b7d 100644
--- a/modules/angular2/src/router/route_config_decorator.ts
+++ b/modules/angular2/src/router/route_config_decorator.ts
@@ -2,13 +2,6 @@ import {RouteConfig as RouteConfigAnnotation, RouteDefinition} from './route_con
 import {makeDecorator} from 'angular2/src/util/decorators';
 import {List} from 'angular2/src/facade/collection';
 
-export {
-  Route,
-  Redirect,
-  AuxRoute,
-  AsyncRoute,
-  RouteDefinition,
-  ROUTE_DATA
-} from './route_config_impl';
+export {Route, Redirect, AuxRoute, AsyncRoute, RouteDefinition} from './route_config_impl';
 export var RouteConfig: (configs: List<RouteDefinition>) => ClassDecorator =
     makeDecorator(RouteConfigAnnotation);
diff --git a/modules/angular2/src/router/route_config_impl.ts b/modules/angular2/src/router/route_config_impl.ts
index e64d978740..d4d2548b34 100644
--- a/modules/angular2/src/router/route_config_impl.ts
+++ b/modules/angular2/src/router/route_config_impl.ts
@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
-import {CONST, CONST_EXPR, Type} from 'angular2/src/facade/lang';
+import {CONST, Type} from 'angular2/src/facade/lang';
 import {List} from 'angular2/src/facade/collection';
 import {RouteDefinition} from './route_definition';
 export {RouteDefinition} from './route_definition';
-import {OpaqueToken} from 'angular2/di';
-
-export const ROUTE_DATA: OpaqueToken = CONST_EXPR(new OpaqueToken('routeData'));
 
 /**
  * You use the RouteConfig annotation to add routes to a component.
diff --git a/modules/angular2/src/router/route_data.ts b/modules/angular2/src/router/route_data.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f7cba6aa02
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/angular2/src/router/route_data.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+import {OpaqueToken} from 'angular2/di';
+import {CONST_EXPR} from 'angular2/src/facade/lang';
+
+export const ROUTE_DATA: OpaqueToken = CONST_EXPR(new OpaqueToken('routeData'));
diff --git a/modules/angular2/src/router/router_outlet.ts b/modules/angular2/src/router/router_outlet.ts
index 0fc9af59dd..2fa1772cf1 100644
--- a/modules/angular2/src/router/router_outlet.ts
+++ b/modules/angular2/src/router/router_outlet.ts
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import {Injector, bind, Dependency, UNDEFINED} from 'angular2/di';
 
 import * as routerMod from './router';
 import {Instruction, ComponentInstruction, RouteParams} from './instruction';
-import {ROUTE_DATA} from './route_config_impl';
+import {ROUTE_DATA} from './route_data';
 import * as hookMod from './lifecycle_annotations';
 import {hasLifecycleHook} from './route_lifecycle_reflector';