I was transiting MSP for the first time in several years back on Sunday the 16th, and caught most of a Twins game between flights. Thanks to a crash on the Hiawatha line, I almost missed my onward flight; although I'm proud to say I made it from the Lindbergh Station to gate F12 in 20 minutes (a mad sprint through the G and F gates). Yesterday, I was flying NW and noticed the tram that runs the length of the C-D gates.

The question is, going from the Hiawatha carry-on security checkpoint to F12, would I have been better off taking the tram to the C/D border and then strolling past the main check-in area to the F gates instead of running through G and F? The in-flight mag made it look like I would have saved some time that way, but the MSP website terminal map makes it look like six of one and a half dozen of the other. Thoughts?