Owned by MARTA Tracks 2 Opened 18 December 1982 | Structure type Underground Platforms in use 1 | |
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Location 1255 West Peachtree StreetAtlanta, GA 30309 Parking 33 daily parking spaces Address Atlanta, GA 30309, United States Similar Five Points station, Midtown station, Civic Center station, North Avenue station, Hamilton E Holmes station | ||
The 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.
Contents
- History
- Nearby landmarks popular destinations
- Bus routes
- Connections with other transit systems
- References
The Arts Center Station 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.
There is also a Zipcar parked in the parking lot.
History
The Arts Center Station was opened on December 18, 1982, the same day as the Midtown Station. 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 become the new Gold and Red Lines northern terminus, respectively.
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.
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: