Arts Center (MARTA station)

Arts Center
MARTA rapid transit station
Location	1255 West Peachtree Street Atlanta, GA 30309
Coordinates	33°47′23″N 84°23′16″W / 33.789705°N 84.387789°W / 33.789705; -84.387789Coordinates: 33°47′23″N 84°23′16″W / 33.789705°N 84.387789°W / 33.789705; -84.387789
Line(s)	Red Line   Gold Line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	CCT, GCT, GRTA
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Parking	33 spaces; limited free daily parking
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Station code	N5
History
Opened	December 18, 1982
Traffic
Passengers (2007)	7200 (daily)[1]  0%
Services
Preceding station   MARTA   Following station Midtown toward Airport Red Line Lindbergh Center toward North Springs Gold Line Lindbergh Center toward Doraville

The Arts Center Station is an underground metro station on the Red and Gold lines of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) rail system.

The Arts Center Station has 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 ninth-busiest station in the MARTA system, handling an average of 14,500 boardings per weekday.

It provides access to the High Museum of Art, the Woodruff Arts Center, the Museum of Design Atlanta, Savannah College of Art and Design, Colony Square, the Center for Puppetry Arts, the CW Music Complex Midtown (Center Stage, The Loft, & Vinyl), the 14th Street Playhouse, DeKalb's House, Peachtree Station (Atlanta's Amtrak station), One Atlantic Center, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, weekday Xpress bus service, Cobb Community Transit, the EarthLink headquarters building and the Alliance Theatre.

It provides connecting bus service to Atlantic Station, Buckhead-Lenox-Phipps Plaza, Midtown, Underground Atlanta, Emory University Hospital Midtown and Piedmont Hospital. Cobb Community Transit provides service to the Cumberland Transfer Center, Marietta Transfer Center and Cumberland Mall. Gwinnett County Transit and GRTA Xpress provide service to Sugarloaf Mills (formerly Discover Mills) and the Mall of Georgia.

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 and was later truncated to a two-station spur serving the Brookwood neighborhood and Northside Drive. This proposed branch was cancelled in favor of construction of the Red Line to Sandy Springs.^[2]

There is also a Zipcar parked in the parking lot.

Station layout

Bus routes

• Route 37 - Defoors Ferry Road / Atlantic Station
• Route 110 - Peachtree Street / "The Peach"

Connections with other transit systems

• The Atlantic Station free bus shuttle
• The Cobb Community Transit
• The Gwinnett County Transit
• The Georgia Regional Transportation Authority "Xpress"
• The Atlanta Amtrak station (with bus service to the Amtrak station provided by MARTA)

References

External links

Media related to Arts Center (MARTA station) at Wikimedia Commons

• MARTA Station Page
• nycsubway.org Atlanta page
• Peachtree Street entrance from Google Maps Street View