Project Kicks Off Systemwide Rail Station Rehabilitation Program
MARTA hosted a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the start of renovations at Indian Creek rail station and kick off the systemwide Rail Station Rehabilitation Program.
The ceremony was led by MARTA General Manager and CEO Jeffrey Parker and MARTA Board of Directors Chair and DeKalb County representative Rita Scott. Distinguished guests and speakers included Congressman Hank Johnson, DeKalb County CEO Michael Thurmond, and DeKalb County Commissioner Steve Bradshaw. DeKalb County MARTA Board Members, members of CEO Parker’s leadership team, DeKalb County Commissioners, and representatives from the design and construction firms handling the renovations were also in attendance.
Indian Creek rail station is the easternmost terminus of the Blue Line and plays an important role in connecting customers east of DeKalb County to the greater MARTA system, averaging close to 10,000 riders a week. Improvements include a new lighted walkway from the parking to lot into the station, replacing all signage and damaged concrete, new public restrooms, tile cladding on the concourse level, and new landscaping. The $10 million project will be designed by Axis Infrastructure and constructed by Carroll Daniel Construction Company and C.D. Moody Construction Company and is funded through the penny sales tax in DeKalb County.
The Indian Creek projects launches MARTA’s Rail Station Rehabilitation Program, a multi-year $300 million investment in improving the customer experience through projects that range from the aesthetic to the transformative. In addition to enhancing customer safety with new lighting and wayfinding, projects will use materials that are easier to maintain, making stations cleaner and safer for riders. All 38 rail stations are part of the Program, with Indian Creek kicking things off, and College Park, Five Points, Lenox, Arts Center, H.E. Holmes, and Airport stations included in the first phase.
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If Marta wants to make the customs safer and bring in more riders. They should put in cameras all over the stations and on the trains and buses. Take out all of the people that are selling CD’s, DVD’S, and other things on the trains, and stop the people that are scaring riders away with their behaviors. Then elderly and women with children will welcome trains and buses. If we’re going to pay such a high fee, we should get what we pay for, and the board members should be riding the buses and trains back and forth to the office so they can see what everyone else sees and day and night. Thank you for your ear, I hope your heart will put some of this to heart.
MARTA already has cameras at every station, train, bus, and streetcar.
Marta should provide secure longterm parking at Indian Creek Station for riders going to the airport. I would prefer to leave my vehicle at Indian Creek and ride the train to the Airport. Of course, it would be Ideal if I could travel directly instead of going through Five Points. How about direct service to the Airport from Indian Creek?
Durham Park Rd and Redan Rd are the 2 main roads providing access to the Indian Creek station. There is an acess point from I285, however, I am uncertain if it is defunct at this time.
What is being done to ensure the smooth and uneventful influx of traffic on these roads with this expansion? Durham Park Rd and Indian Creek suffer a substantial change since the senior subdivision on Durham Pk Rd. The movie studio and new subdivision (which has not opened yet) will only change the quiet neighborhoods in the area into something more indicative of Atlanta’s more high traffic areas which would serve to decrease rather than positively increase property values and quality of life.
Wider roads and appropriate traffic lights (not roundabouts) are inparative but don’t seem possible. How is the anticipated traffic going to be addressed?
Also, a project of this size should have a lot more green space to remind users that they are in the suburbs not the city. Stone Mountain should look like Stone Mountain not Midtown Atlsnta.
Naturally the question of safety and upkeep are issues as well given the proximity to the jail and the fact that it’s the end of the line.
Finally, is there anything planned as part of this project to improve the elementary schools located within within a mile of the train station? These schools can surely use an upgrade or permanent addition to accommodate the anticipated influx of new students.
Promises are often made to gain public trust only to be disregarded as time goes on. If you lived near this proposed venue, maybe you too feel sad about loosing the quiet, uncongested area that you call home to this type of layout.
Thank you for this opportunity.