MARTA's Avondale Rail Station

Join MARTA's Blue Line Rail Operator, Faith Simmons, as she takes us on a tour of the Avondale surrounding neighborhood, and shows us the most popular destinations served by Avondale station buses, but also a glimpse into MARTA's Avondale Rail Yard and Rail Service Control Center.
Avondale Station was one of MARTA's original seven rail stations that opened June 30, 1979. It is located just outside the city of Avondale with its affluent Tudor style homes and quiet tree-lined streets.
The Avondale Station spans the CSX railroad and has an entrance off East Ponce de Leon Avenue on the north, and another off East College Avenue to the south. Both sides of the Avondale station have bus loops with a variety of community destinations including Your DeKalb Farmer's Market; The DeKalb Medical Center; Emory Hospital and Village; Virgiinia-Highlands restaurants; the Toco Hills Shopping Center; North DeKalb Mall; Downtown Tucker and Tucker High School; DeKalb Technical College; Perimeter College at the Clarkston Campus, DeVry University, Northlake Mall,and the Stone Mountain Village.
Faith also shows the solar-powered canopy at MARTA's Laredo Bus Garage, and takes us on a quick bus ride from the Avondale station to the Laredo facility and the DeKalb Farmer's Market directly across the street.
The "brains" of the MARTA rail control is located in a building next to the Avondale rail station... the Rail Services Control Center. We'll take a peek inside and learn more about it.
To see "Behind the Scenes" photos, visit MARTA's web site at www.itsmarta.co...

[@zeh_exe_teen6797]

I Remember on last TIME Me and My Auntie Gett off at Avondale Station

[@nugget5575]

This is the station I get off to take the 117 home.

[@anonymous3738]

The Green Line is expected to be extended to Avondale after Bankhead station gets extended. This would be a much better terminus than Edgewood/Candler Park, since Avondale has separate center tracks which the eastbound one can be the terminating track and the westbound one can be the starting track, thus putting all platforms in the system to proper, full-time use.

[@roderickwimby21]

WOW DID NOT KNOW THAT I'm shocked

[@Myfavoritecuties]

One of the buses also goes to Gwinnett County

[@METALFACEDOOMXXXX]

Who cares

[@Myfavoritecuties]

@@METALFACEDOOMXXXX it’s info you idiot

[@presto569]

@@METALFACEDOOMXXXX me

[@michaelwilliams7734]

Need to do more about the bathrooms

[@B7957395]

She’s nice looking

[@davidturner6177]

👍👍👍

[@Atlanta83]

Smh the good Ole days😢

[@thegoldentrainrails1988]

0:04 my mom work at this hospital

[@xistaticxi7243]

They treat this system like the mta buisness trains

[@METALFACEDOOMXXXX]

This ain't nothing like mta get the crack! NYC largest system in the world.

[@METALFACEDOOMXXXX]

Atlanta is slow asfffff

[@ejdsndnj]

Your city is poop

[@UniqueStuff833]

They need to need to expand their rail ngl

[@METALFACEDOOMXXXX]

@@UniqueStuff833 yeah that shit trash. Might as not have a train.

[@jrt2792]

@@METALFACEDOOMXXXX it's better than nothing really. But expansion would take years unfortunately.

[@METALFACEDOOMXXXX]

@@jrt2792 They should just throw that hand me down train system in the trash and start over. Atlanta is a halfassed city anyway. It will never compete with the big dawgs.