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N1 Peachtree Center
General information
Location	216 Peachtree Street NE Atlanta, Georgia 30303
Coordinates	33°45′35″N84°23′15″W / 33.759677°N 84.387548°W /33.759677; -84.387548
Platforms	1island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	MARTA Bus: 40 Atlanta Streetcar CobbLinc Ride Gwinnett GRTA
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Parking	None
Bicycle facilities	5 bike racks
Accessible	Yes
Architect	Toombs, Amisano and Wells[1]
Other information
Station code	N1
History
Opened	December 11, 1982; 42 years ago (1982-12-11)
Passengers
2013	7,453 (avg. weekday)[2]  6%
Services
Preceding station MARTA Following station Five Points towardAirport Red Line Civic Center towardNorth Springs Gold Line Civic Center towardDoraville
Location

Peachtree Center is an underground subway station on theRed andGold lines of theMetropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) rail system. It is the deepest station in theMARTA rail system, at 120 feet (37 m) belowPeachtree Street.^[3] It serves thePeachtree Center neighborhood ofdowntown Atlanta, and has access toGeorgia State University via theAtlanta Streetcar. It is the first station north-northeast of the rail system hub at Five Points, and is one of the busiest stations on the Red/Gold Lines, handling over 15,000 people per weekday.

Although the operation of the North Line began between theGarnett andNorth Avenue stations on December 4, 1981, the Peachtree Center station between them did not open until September 11, 1982. A poster dating to 1982 on the station platform describes how the station was built. The poster reads:

MARTA's moving Atlanta, 120 feet below Peachtree Street.

The Peachtree Center station was built by tunneling through solid gneiss, a granite like rock formed of layers of quartz and mica. This rock provides underground support for the station. Soft ground or mixed tunneling was used where there was insufficient rock structure for underground support. With this method, compressed air twice the normalatmospheric pressure was used to support the walls while permanent structures were being built. Like deep sea divers, workers on this section of the rapid rail transit system were required to undergo 30 minutes ofcompression/decompression when entering or coming out of the tunnel. This station is only one of a few tunnels in the world where the walls and the ceiling were carved from solid rock.

Length of longest escalator serving the station entrance across from the Atlanta Public Library is 190 feet- the longest in the southeast. Cost of Station: approx. $45 million. Station depth: 120 feet. Station length: 900 feet.

An exploratory tunnel was initially driven at the crown of the tunnel to provide input into rock quality. The cavern was constructed using a heading and bench approach, first excavating the heading and following with the bench excavation. All excavation on the cavern was accomplished using drill and blast methods. Vibration monitoring stations were established in buildings along Peachtree Street to monitor the vibrations and compare to contract limits.

The location the station was built on was originally the home to "The House That Jack Built", an eccentric commercial building built byJasper Newton "Jack" Smith in the late 1800s. As part of a lease agreement Smith made with later leaseholders of the property, two inscribed marble slabs were to be displayed prominently in any future building constructed on the site. When Peachtree Center station opened in 1982, these two marble slabs were relocated to a fenced-off area near the subway station entrance.^[4]

The station has an island platform serving two tracks. The floor is made of gray tile, the "walls" are made of solidgneiss rock, and the ceiling panels are made of steel. Four escalator banks are used to access the station, with the Carnegie Way/Ellis Street (southwest) entrance having the longest escalators in the system, which MARTA claims are also the longest in theSoutheast U.S.^[5] The freestanding escalator at the CNN Center is longer at 205 feet (62 m).^[6] The Ellis Street entrance was closed for more than two years for renovation; it re-opened on August 24, 2012. The Harris Street (northwest) entrance has a map of the MARTA system with formerly proposed lines on it.

• American Cancer Society Center (formerly Inforum)
• AmericasMart
• Atlanta Central Library
• Atlanta Marriott Marquis
• Centennial Olympic Park
• Children's Museum of Atlanta^[7]
• CNN Center
• College Football Hall of Fame
• Georgia Aquarium
• Hard Rock Cafe
• Mall at Peachtree Center
• National Center for Civil and Human Rights
• Peachtree Center
• Rialto Center for the Arts
• SAE Institute
• Truist Plaza
• Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel
• Woodruff Park
• World of Coca-Cola

Peachtree Center station is served by the followingMARTA bus routes:

• Route 40 - Downtown / Peachtree Street

The station is also served by theAtlanta Streetcar andCobbLinc,Ride Gwinnett, andXpress commuter buses.

The station was featured in the 1985 movieThe Heavenly Kid.^{[8][failed verification]}

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