Arts Center station (MARTA) explained

Style:MARTA
Type:MARTA rapid transit station
Address:1255 West Peachtree Street
Atlanta, Georgia 30309
Country:U.S.
Other: MARTA Bus: 27, 37, 40, 110
CobbLinc
Ride Gwinnett
GRTA
Atlantic Station Shuttle
Architect:Muldawer-Patterson, Jenkins Fleming[1]
Tracks:2
Structure:Underground
Coordinates:33.7897°N -84.3878°W
Parking:33 daily parking spaces
Passengers:6,605 (avg. weekday)[2]
Pass Year:2013
Pass Percent:-0.54
Accessible:Yes
Code:N5
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Custom:
Shape:none
Line:none
Marker:rail-metro
Marker-Color:
  1. 000
Zoom:15

Arts Center station is a train station in Atlanta, Georgia, serving the Red and Gold lines of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) rail system. It is the northernmost of three MARTA stations that serve Midtown Atlanta, the others being Midtown and North Avenue. North of this station, Lindbergh Center, the tracks emerge out from the subway as it approaches the above ground station.

Arts Center is an underground station with four levels: the platform level, the mezzanine level with fare gates facing onto West Peachtree Street, bus bays for bus feeder routes, and the upper level which is located across the street from the Woodruff Arts Center. This is the seventh-busiest station in the MARTA system, handling an average of 6,605 entries per weekday.

Arts Center is MARTA rail's primary connecting point to Peachtree station, Atlanta's current Amtrak intercity rail station, located approximately one mile to the north. MARTA's Route 110 bus to Buckhead provides direct service from Arts Center to Peachtree station and points north.[3]

There is also a Zipcar parked in the parking lot.

Station layout

UBridge LevelParking Lot
GStreet LevelEntrance/Exit, bus loops
MMezzanineFare barriers
P
Platform level
SouthboundRed Line, Gold Line toward Airport (Midtown)
Northbound Gold Line toward Doraville (Lindbergh Center)
Red Line toward North Springs (Lindbergh Center)

History

The Arts Center Station was opened on December 18, 1982, the same day as the Midtown Station.[4] It served as the northern terminus for both the Gold and Red Lines(at that time called the Northeast-South Line and North-South Line, respectively) until December 15, 1984, when the Brookhaven/Oglethorpe and Lindbergh Center Stations became the new Gold and Red Lines northern terminus, respectively until future expansion expanded the lines yet again.

Just north of the Arts Center Station is a stub provision for the unbuilt Northwest Line, which was originally intended to run to Cobb County, but when Cobb County failed to pass a referendum for the 1% sales tax necessary to participate in MARTA, the line was truncated to a two-station spur serving the Brookwood neighborhood and Northside Drive. Eventually, the proposed branch was cancelled in favor of expanding the Red Line (then the North-South line) past the Buckhead station to Sandy Springs, and Dunwoody.[5]

Nearby landmarks & popular destinations

Bus routes

Buses provide service to Atlantic Station, Buckhead-Lenox-Phipps Plaza, Midtown, Underground Atlanta, Emory University Hospital Midtown and Piedmont Hospital through these routes:

Connections with other transit systems

External links

Notes and References

  1. MARTA Arts Center Station . Atlanta, GA . Plaque inside of station entrance.
  2. Web site: 2014 Transportation Fact Book. Atlanta Regional Commission. 22 July 2015.
  3. Web site: MARTA to Amtrak. February 5, 2010 . December 13, 2020.
  4. Web site: MARTA's Midtown Station. https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/iOIZXjdcqBA . 2021-12-22 . live. YouTube. Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority. 22 July 2015.
  5. Web site: MARTA Provisions for Future Extensions . 2009-12-22 . nycsubway.org.
  6. Web site: Atlantic Station. As Free Ride. Transloc. 22 July 2015.