Arts Center station (MARTA)

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.


N5
Arts Center
MARTA rapid transit station
Entrance to the Arts Center Station from West Peachtree St NW
General information
Location1255 West Peachtree Street
Atlanta, Georgia 30309
U.S.
Coordinates33.789705°N 84.387789°W / 33.789705; -84.387789
Owned byMARTA
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
ConnectionsBus transport MARTA Bus: 27, 37, 40, 110
Bus transport CobbLinc
Bus transport Ride Gwinnett
Bus transport GRTA
Bus transport Atlantic Station Shuttle
Construction
Structure typeUnderground
Parking33 daily parking spaces
AccessibleYes
ArchitectMuldawer-Patterson, Jenkins Fleming[1]
Other information
Station codeN5
History
OpenedDecember 18, 1982 (1982-12-18)
Passengers
20136,605 (avg. weekday)[2] Decrease 0.54%
Services
Preceding station Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority MARTA Following station
Midtown
toward Airport
 Red Line Lindbergh Center
toward North Springs
Gold Line Lindbergh Center
toward Doraville

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
U Bridge Level Parking Lot
G Street Level Entrance/Exit, bus loops
M Mezzanine Fare barriers
P
Platform level		 Southbound ← Red Line, Gold Line toward Airport (Midtown)
Island platform, doors will open on the left
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]

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:

  • Route 27 - Cheshire Bridge Road
  • Route 37 - Defoors Ferry Road
  • Route 40 - Peachtree Street / Downtown
  • Route 110 - Peachtree Road / Buckhead
  • ASAP - Free Shuttle Service to Atlantic Station[6]

Connections with other transit systems

References
  1. MARTA Arts Center Station (Plaque inside of station entrance). Atlanta, GA.
  2. "2014 Transportation Fact Book" (PDF). Atlanta Regional Commission. Retrieved July 22, 2015.
  3. "MARTA to Amtrak". February 5, 2010. Retrieved December 13, 2020.
  4. "MARTA's Midtown Station". YouTube. Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority. Archived from the original on December 22, 2021. Retrieved July 22, 2015.
  5. "MARTA Provisions for Future Extensions". nycsubway.org. Retrieved December 22, 2009.
  6. "Atlantic Station". As Free Ride. Transloc. Retrieved July 22, 2015.
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