MARTA’s Bankhead Station Master Plan is intended to guide urban design elements that allow for safer access, routes and connectivity to the Bankhead MARTA Station and its surrounding community. With the anticipated transit-oriented development at the station site, the Quarry Yards site development, and Westside Park, the plan seeks to guide the accompanying growth in a way that supports transit ridership, improves walkability, connections, and maximizes access to jobs and housing for a broad, diverse population. This effort will be undertaken in collaboration with the MARTA Bankhead Platform Extension project.

The MARTA Bankhead Platform Extension project is an extension of the elevated platform from the existing two-car train consist capacity to an eight-train consist. Planned development in the area will increase the reliance and need for this optimized capacity. In addition to the platform extension, the project will also incorporate a new canopy, a new elevator, new escalator, the conversion of the existing “berm” (a small hill of dirt and grass) to an open public community plaza with amenities, and a new station entrance providing access to the station platform above to serve the current commuters and meet the demands of the anticipated increase in ridership due to local development in the area and planned transit-oriented development at the station.