Charrette Study Envisions Better Candler Park MARTA Station (East Point, College Park: neighborhood, college)

[koko339]

http://www.livablecommunitiescoaliti...les/100763.pdf

This is how the areas around stations should look.

[NYbyWAYofGA]

Originally Posted by koko339

http://www.livablecommunitiescoaliti...les/100763.pdf

This is how the areas around stations should look.

The renderings look like what they have planned around the Brookhaven/Oglethorpe Station. It would be nice to have some mini-Decatur's around most of the Marta stations.

[RandyWatson13]

Common sense would say to do this. Nice renderings.

[waronxmas]

Originally Posted by koko339

http://www.livablecommunitiescoaliti...les/100763.pdf

This is how the areas around stations should look.

NITPICK ALERT

This is what a lot of areas around a lot of MARTA stations outside Downtown and Midtown (which have tons of development around them thus making them exempt from having the focus on them) already look like in some form or fashion. For example, the following stations:

West End
Lindbergh
Ashby Street
College Park
Buckhead
Decatur
Chamblee
Brookhaven (not complete)
Lenox (not complete)
East Point (not complete)
Lakewood (not complete)

In other words, most MARTA stations have high density development directly surrounding it or in the vicinity.

Now, you will get no disagreement from me that stations like Candler Park that were built more like a commuter station than a neighborhood subway station (even though most of those stations are in the middle of a thriving area ) totally need these types of developments and I am 100% on board. Also, many of the stations I listed above have areas around them that could stand to have more development added and inexplicaple elements removed.

A great example is West End Station. Why oh why the decided to build that big lot underneath the elevated track and why they decided to make the station as big as it is beyond me. The whole thing needs to be redesigned to fit better in with the surrounding neighborhood IMHO. Fortunately, the vibrancy of the surrounding neighborhood hasn't been effected by the station being this way for 20+ years.

[plessthanpointohfive]

One thing that's always baffled me is how the CP/Edgewood Station is so very close to (1) the Edgewood Shopping Center, and (2) Little 5 Points, and (3) two thriving residential areas, yet when you get out of the station building you feel like you were dumped in an industrial wasteland. It's completely disconnected from it's surroundings.

The north side, CP side, even has a park connected to the station - Iverson Park. But you'd never know it because it's separated by an ominous hurricane fence, ostensibly to deter vagrants from using the park. I just don't think it's all that necessary to do that, especially if the station itself was converted into a more usable space.