Arts Center station (MARTA)

Arts Center   N5
MARTA rapid transit station
Entrance to the Arts Center Station from West Peachtree St NW
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
Owned by	MARTA
Line(s)	Red Line   Gold Line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	CCT, GCT, GRTA, Atlantic Station Shuttle
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Parking	33 daily parking spaces
Disabled access	Yes
Architect	Muldawer-Patterson, Jenkins Fleming
Other information
Station code	N5
History
Opened	December 18, 1982
Traffic
Passengers (2013)	6,605 (avg. weekday)  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 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.

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.

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 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.