diff --git a/modules/angular2/router.ts b/modules/angular2/router.ts
index 8e938a4b28..e47435e654 100644
--- a/modules/angular2/router.ts
+++ b/modules/angular2/router.ts
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ 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 ba518e6b7d..badeba28c0 100644
--- a/modules/angular2/src/router/route_config_decorator.ts
+++ b/modules/angular2/src/router/route_config_decorator.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@ 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} from './route_config_impl';
+export {
+  Route,
+  Redirect,
+  AuxRoute,
+  AsyncRoute,
+  RouteDefinition,
+  ROUTE_DATA
+} 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 d4d2548b34..e64d978740 100644
--- a/modules/angular2/src/router/route_config_impl.ts
+++ b/modules/angular2/src/router/route_config_impl.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
-import {CONST, Type} from 'angular2/src/facade/lang';
+import {CONST, CONST_EXPR, 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
deleted file mode 100644
index f7cba6aa02..0000000000
--- a/modules/angular2/src/router/route_data.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-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 2fa1772cf1..0fc9af59dd 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_data';
+import {ROUTE_DATA} from './route_config_impl';
 import * as hookMod from './lifecycle_annotations';
 import {hasLifecycleHook} from './route_lifecycle_reflector';