List of MARTA stations

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MARTA Rapid Rail
Overview
Type	rapid transit
System	Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority
Status	operational
Locale	Atlanta, Fulton and DeKalb Counties, Georgia
Termini	North Springs (Red) Doraville (Yellow) Indian Creek (Blue) Edgewood/Candler Park (Green) Airport (Red/Yellow) H.E. Holmes (Blue) Bankhead (Green)
Stations	38 (Five Points, 11 North, 10 Northeast, 9 East, 5 West, 1 Proctor Creek)
Services	Red Line      Yellow Line      Blue Line      Green Line
Daily ridership	451,064
Operation
Opened	1979 (East-West) 1981 (North-South)
Owner	MARTA
Operator(s)	MARTA
Technical
Line length	48 miles (77 kilometers)
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) (standard gauge)
Electrification	third rail
Highest elevation	elevated, underground, at-grade

MARTA's heavy rail network is composed of four service lines: the Red Line, Yellow Line, Blue Line and the Green Line. The lines connect at the Five Points station and is the only station that provides connection from the group of the two lines that run mainly in opposite directions.

Contents 1 Rail System 2 Ridership 3 Historical timeline 4 Gallery 5 See also 6 Sources

[edit] Rail System

Red and Yellow Lines

Legend North Springs Parking, Ridestore Sandy Springs Parking, Ridestore Dunwoody Parking Interstate 285 Doraville Parking Medical Center Parking Chamblee Parking Brookhaven/Oglethorpe Parking Buckhead Lenox Parking, Ridestore Georgia 400 Lindbergh Center Parking, Ridestore Interstate 85 Arts Center Midtown North Avenue Civic Center Peachtree Center Five Points East-West Line, Ridestore Garnett Interstate 20 West End Parking Oakland City Parking Lakewood/Fort McPherson Parking East Point Parking College Park Parking Interstate 85 Airport Ridestore

The Red and Yellow lines split north of the Lindbergh Center Station (stop N6). Northbound trains are identified by their destinations (North Springs or Doraville) on electronic LCD signs on the front and sides of the train and on each car. An automated announcement system announces train destinations, connections to bus routes at each station, connections to other rail lines, and other landmarks that apply to each rail station. During daytime hours, trains from both lines service the entire trunk line (N6 to S7); all southbound trains are identified with a destination of Airport. After 9pm weekdays (8 pm weekends and holidays) only Doraville bound trains service N6 to S7. As a result, riders must transfer to or from a North Springs train at Lindbergh Center (N6).

The Blue and Green lines split at Ashby Station (stop W3). Trains are identified by their final destination. Trains from H.E. Holmes (W5) travel to Indian Creek Station (E9). Normally, trains originating at Bankhead Station (stop P4) travel to Edgewood/Candler Park Station (stop E4). During weekends and after 8pm every day, trains originating at Bankhead Station only go so far as Vine City Station (stop W2).

MARTA switched to a color-based naming system in October 2009. Previous maps of the MARTA system use orange to label the North-South line and blue to label the East-West line. Newer maps currently appear on trains, at stations, and on the system's website to further differentiate the different branches of the North-South and East-West Corridors with different colors (North Springs/Airport-red, Doraville/Airport-orange, H.E. Holmes-Indian Creek-blue, Proctor Creek/Edgewood-green).

Many suburban stations offer designated free daily and paid long term parking in MARTA operated park and ride lots. These stations also have designated kiss ride passenger drop off parking spaces closest to the station entrance.

[edit] Ridership

This is a list of MARTA stations sorted by average weekday fares collected.^[1]

1. Five Points – 25,367 (2006)
2. S7: Airport
3. W5: H.E. Holmes
4. S6: College Park
5. E8: Kensington
6. S2: West End
7. N6: Lindbergh Center
8. E9: Indian Creek
9. N5: Arts Center
10. N1: Peachtree Center
11. NE9: Chamblee
12. N3: North Avenue
13. N11: North Springs
14. E7: Avondale
15. NE10: Doraville
16. NE7: Lenox
17. S3: Oakland City
18. N4: Midtown – 4,085 (2006)
19. N9: Dunwoody
20. E6: Decatur
21. S5: East Point
22. E1: Georgia State
23. NE8: Brookhaven/Oglethorpe
24. S4: Lakewood/Fort McPherson
25. E3: Inman Park/Reynoldstown – 2,908 (2006)
26. W1: Dome/GWCC/Philips Arena/CNN Center
27. W4: West Lake
28. N7: Buckhead – 2,553 (2006)
29. P4: Bankhead (Proctor Creek line) – 2,310 (2006)
30. W3: Ashby
31. N2: Civic Center – 2,293 (2006)
32. E2: King Memorial
33. N10: Sandy Springs – 2,211 (2006)
34. S1: Garnett – 1,909 (2006)
35. N8: Medical Center
36. W2: Vine City
37. E4: Edgewood/Candler Park – 1,570 (2006)

[edit] Historical timeline

Blue & Green Lines
Legend Indian Creek Parking Interstate 285 Kensington Parking Avondale Parking Decatur East Lake Parking Edgewood/Candler Park Parking Inman Park/Reynoldstown Parking King Memorial Interstate 75/85 Georgia State Five Points North-South Line, Ridestore Dome/GWCC/Philips Arena/CNN Center Vine City Parking Ashby Parking West Lake Parking Bankhead Interstate 20 H.E. Holmes Parking

This is a list of key dates which led to the formation of the MARTA stations along the established rapid rail lines.^[2]

• June 30, 1979 -- MARTA's first train, the East Line, began operating between Avondale and Five Points Station. It also marked the start of MARTA's combined bus and rail service.

• December 22, 1979 -- MARTA's second train, the West Line, began operating between Hightower (H.E. Holmes) and Five Points Station.

• September 1982 -- the Peachtree Center and West End stations, along the North Line began service.

• December 1982 -- the Arts Center and Midtown stations began service.

• December 1984 -- five new stations opened: Lindbergh Center, Lenox, Brookhaven, Oakland City and Lakewood/Fort McPherson. The South Line was introduced.

• August 1986 -- the East Point Station opened, extending the South Line by about two miles. A little more than a year later, the Chamblee Station began service and served as the temporary end of the Northeast Line.

• June 18, 1988 --- the Airport Station opens, and becomes the southern termini of the North-South Line.

• December 12, 1992 -- The Bankhead Station/Proctor Creek Line went into service.

• December 29, 1992 -- The Doraville Station opens and becomes the northern termini of the Northeast Line.

• June 26, 1993 -- MARTA extended East Line services through Kensington to Indian Creek Station - the first time the rail line went beyond the I-285 perimeter.

• June 8, 1996 -- MARTA extended North Line services through Buckhead, Medical Center and Dunwoody Stations.

• 1999 -- MARTA announced a partnership with BellSouth to create the Lindbergh Transit Oriented Development (TOD), a live, work and play community built around a rail station and the largest multi-use development of its kind in the United States at the time.

• December 16, 2000 -- MARTA opened two new rail stations - Sandy Springs and North Springs -on the North Line.

• October 1, 2009 -- MARTA re-names its lines based on colors instead of directions.

[edit] Gallery

MARTA rail station sign	Southbound train at Civic Center (N2) Station	Peachtree Center (N1) Station	Decatur (E6) Station
MARTA kiss ride sign

[edit] See also

• Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority

[edit] Sources

1. ^ Donsky and Daniels. MARTA: HOW SAFE? Transit system officials defend security, cite low crime totals, despite a few high-profile incidents Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Feb. 9, 2007, p.A10
2. ^ Douglas Sams. [1] Atlanta Business Chronicle, June 6, 2008