Civic Center MARTA rapid transit station |
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Address | 435 West Peachtree St NW Atlanta, GA 30308 |
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Connections | CCT, GCT, GRTA | ||||||||||||||
Structure | Elevated | ||||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||
Parking | None | ||||||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | None | ||||||||||||||
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Opened | December 4, 1981 | ||||||||||||||
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Code | N2 | ||||||||||||||
Breeze Card | Yes | ||||||||||||||
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Passengers (2006) | .837 million 111% | ||||||||||||||
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Civic Center is an elevated metro station on the Red and Gold lines of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) rail system. It is located in the SoNo district of Atlanta. This station has seen an increase of faregate totals and ridership in the past years, mainly because of the increased interest of highrise building in the area.
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Civic Center station is located in SoNo, a sub-district of Downtown, with convenient access to the southern end of Midtown Atlanta. The station is named after the nearby Atlanta Civic Center three blocks east at Piedmont Avenue NE, but serves the Peachtree Summit and SunTrust Plaza skyscrapers to the south. It provides connecting bus service to Georgia State Capitol, The Metro Transitional Center, The Turner Field, Zoo Atlanta, Centennial Olympic Park, The World of Coca-Cola, and The Georgia Aquarium.
Civic Center has a unique layout compared to other stations of the MARTA system. Although the rest of the line in Downtown and Midtown is underground, the station is actually elevated. This is because it lies perpendicular to the trench for the Downtown Connector (), but above the roadway, making it the only metro station in the world located above a highway.[1]
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