Lenox station (MARTA)
 Lenox
NE7 | |||||||||||
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| MARTA rapid transit station | |||||||||||
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| Location |
955 East Paces Ferry Road NE Atlanta, GA 30326 | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°50′50″N 84°21′23″W / 33.847144°N 84.35631°W | ||||||||||
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| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Connections | Buc Shuttle | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | Underground | ||||||||||
| Parking | 321 spaces | ||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | No | ||||||||||
| Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Station code | NE7 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | December 15, 1984 | ||||||||||
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Lenox is an underground metro station in Atlanta, Georgia, serving the Gold Line of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority. Located in the Buckhead district, it provides access to Lenox Square and Phipps Plaza, which are located on Peachtree Street across the street from one another, as well as the nearby neighborhoods of Lenox Park and Pine Hills. It also provides connecting bus service to Peachtree Industrial business district, Underground Atlanta, Emory University Hospital Midtown, Woodruff Arts Center, Midtown business district, Piedmont Hospital, and the Atlanta Amtrak station.
This is the northernmost Gold Line station in Fulton County. Northeast of the station, the line crosses into DeKalb County.
Station layout
| G | Street Level | Entrance/Exit, station house |
| P Platform level |
Westbound | ← Gold Line toward Airport (Lindbergh Center) |
| Island platform, doors will open on the left | ||
| Eastbound | → Gold Line toward Doraville (Brookhaven/Oglethorpe) → | |
History
The station was built on the site of Johnsontown, a small community of about 30 African American families originally settled in 1912. The properties were acquired in the early 1980s and the houses razed to make way for the station.[1] The station opened in 1984 when the northeast (now Gold) line was extended from Arts Center to Brookhaven/Oglethorpe.
Initially, the code was N7. But in 1994, it was changed to NE7.
Parking
Lenox has both a parking lot (193 spaces) and parking deck (128 spaces) for MARTA patrons.
Nearby landmarks and popular destinations
Bus routes
The station is served by the following MARTA bus routes:
- Route 16 - Ralph McGill Blvd./N. Highland/Lenox (Route will operate from this station effective December 10, 2016)
- Route 25 - Peachtree Industrial Boulevard / Johnson Ferry Road
- Route 33 - Briarcliff Road / Lenox (Route name will change effective December 10, 2016, to Briarcliff Road/ Shallowford Road/Lindbergh)
- Route 110 - Peachtree Street / "The Peach"
Connections to other transit systems
References
- ↑ Keating, Larry (2010). Atlanta: Race, Class and Urban Expansion. Temple University Press. p. 49. ISBN 1439904499.