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In Atlanta, Georgia, the
Downtown Connector or
75/85 (pronounced "seventy-five eighty-five") is the Concurrency (road) Connector (road) of
Interstate 75 and
Interstate 85 through the core of the city. Beginning at the I-85/
Langford Parkway interchange, the Downtown Connector runs generally due north, meeting the east-west
Interstate 20 in the middle. Just north of this is the
Grady Curve around
Grady Memorial Hospital. Continuing north, the terminus of the Downtown Connector is the
Brookwood Interchange or
Brookwood Split in the
Brookwood (Atlanta) area of the city. The overall length of the Downtown Connector is approximately seven and one-half miles.
The highway was constructed in the early 1950s as a six-lane thoroughfare, and was numbered
State Route 295,http://www.geocities.com/garoadwarrior76/garoutelog281_300.html Accessed January 23, 2007 and was slated to carry
U.S. Route 19 and
U.S. Route 41 at one point.http://www.geocities.com/garoadwarrior76/SR295_1956 Accessed January 23, 2007 The route was heavily reconstructed during the 1980s as part of the Freeing the Freeways program to widen Atlanta-area interstates. Today the highway carries as many as 16 lanes of traffic in some sections, placing it among the widest roads in the world. In addition to the general purpose lanes, there is a High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lane in each direction for the entire length of the highway. The proposed
Interstate 485 (Georgia) was originally planned by GDOT to carry some north/south traffic through the eastern side of the city, but most of this was cancelled in the 1970s under Jimmy Carter, former governor of Georgia. (Parts of that road are now
Interstate 675 (Georgia) and
State Route 400 (Georgia).)
The Downtown Connector carries more than 323,000 vehicles per day at its busiest point — between Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and Edgewood Avenue, while no portion of the Downtown Connector carries fewer than 236,000 vehicles per day. 2005 Annual Average Daily Traffic Report (AADT). Georgia Department of Transportation, Office of Transportation Data. Last accessed January 2, 2007. The area around the connector and associated interchanges are considered one of the 10 most congested stretches of interstate in the U.S.. Due to this fact, many motorists often compare Atlanta to
Los Angeles, California, which is also known for its notoriously-congested freeway system.
The highway is fully instrumented with Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) devices. There are nineteen
closed-circuit television cameras between the Langford Pkwy interchange (south end) and the Brookwood Interchange (north end). Additionally, the Downtown Connector has three large overhead electronic message signs, and four smaller HOV-dedicated message signs on the median barrier wall. Traffic flow data is gathered through a video detection system, using pole-mounted black-and-white cameras spaced every 1/3 mile on both sides of the roadway. All video and data is fed into the Georgia Department of Transportation's Transportation Management Center (TMC), via
fiber optic cable located under the shoulders of the roadway.
The city's
skyline, both Downtown and
Midtown Atlanta, can be seen from the highway, especially at the northern and southern ends. The route also goes directly past Turner Field; formerly known as Centennial Olympic Stadium, where the opening and closing ceremonies and
track and field events were held for the Centennial 1996 Summer Olympics.
Gallery
Image:13_Atlanta.jpg|North end of the Downtown Connector where I-75 and I-85 converge in Midtown AtlantaImage:Atlanta 75.85.jpg|Downtown Connector view of the Downtown Atlanta skylineImage:Downtown connector daytime.jpg|Downtown Connector facing south from Tenth Street bridgeImage:Downtown connector nighttime.jpg|Downtown Connector facing south from Fifth Street bridge; nighttime view
Exit list
Exits are numbered from south to north, in accordance with
AASHTO guidelines. Mile markers and exit numbers have always been posted according to I-75 only, but once re-joining I-85 the numbers continue as if the motorist were traveling I-85 the entire time (
not just picking up where they left off).{]!rowspan=2|Destinations!rowspan=2|Notes|-!Old!New|-!colspan=4|Southern terminus of Downtown Connector and I-85/ I-85
concurrency (road).
Freeway continues southbound as I-75 south.|-|87|242|
Interstate 85 (Georgia) south - Atlanta Airport, Montgomery, AL|Southbound exit and northbound entrance.
I-85 is concurrent with unsigned Georgia State Route 403.|-|88|243| State Route 166 (Georgia) (
Langford Parkway) - East Point (GA)|Southbound has I-75/I-85 concurrency. Northbound has I-75 only.|-|89|244|University Avenue,
Pryor Street begins here.|-|90|245|[Abernathy Boulevard,
Capitol Avenue,
Turner Field, [Central Avenue, Downtown, Turner Field and downtown northbound.
Signed "Fulton Street, Turner Field" southbound.|-|92|247| [Interstate 20 (Georgia) (
Ralph D. Abernathy Freeway) - Augusta (GA),
Birmingham, AL|Unsigned
Georgia State Route 402 is concurrent with I-20.|-|93|248A|
Martin Luther King Jr. Drive,
State Capitol (Georgia)|Southbound exit and northbound entrance.|-|94|248B|Edgewood Avenue, Sweet Auburn Avenue,
John Wesley Dobbs||-|96|248C|
Georgia State Route 10 east -
Andrew Young International Boulevard, (
Freedom Parkway) - Carter Center|Southbound exit only.|-|98|249B|[Pine Street,
Peachtree Street, Civic Center (Atlanta)|Northbound exit only.
Exit to reach Crawford Long Hospital.], Georgia Dome/[U.S. Route 29 - Spring Street, West Peachtree Street|Northbound exit.
Exit to access
U.S. Route 78 and
U.S. Route 278.|-|100|249D|
U.S. Route 78/U.S. Route 278 (North Avenue) - Georgia Tech|Southbound exit.|-|101|250|10th Street, 14th Street, Georgia Institute of Technology|Northbound exit.No northbound entrance to I-85.|-|102|250|16th Street, 14th Street, 10th Street|Southbound exit. Exit to access Georgia Tech.|-|103|251|
Interstate 85 (Georgia) north -
Greenville, SC|Left exit northbound.|-!colspan=4|Northern terminus of Downtown Connector and I-85/ I-85 concurrency.
Freeway continues northbound as I-75 north|}
References
External links
- Near real-time traffic image of I-75/85 near the Brookwood Interchange
- Near real-time traffic image of I-75/85 near Tenth St
- Near real-time traffic image of I-75/85 near Grady Hosp
- Near real-time traffic image of I-75/85 at University Ave
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Downtown Connector|length_mi=|length_ref=|length_round=3|established=|direction_a=South|direction_b=North|starting_terminus= towards
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
in [Atlanta, Georgia|ending_terminus= near
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In
Atlanta, Georgia, the
Downtown Connector or
75/85 (pronounced "seventy-five eighty-five") is the Concurrency (road)
Connector (road) of Interstate 75 and
Interstate 85 through the core of the city. Beginning at the I-85/Langford Parkway interchange, the Downtown Connector runs generally due north, meeting the east-west Interstate 20 in the middle. Just north of this is the
Grady Curve around Grady Memorial Hospital. Continuing north, the terminus of the Downtown Connector is the
Brookwood Interchange or
Brookwood Split in the Brookwood (Atlanta) area of the city. The overall length of the Downtown Connector is approximately seven and one-half miles.
The highway was constructed in the early 1950s as a six-lane thoroughfare, and was numbered
State Route 295,http://www.geocities.com/garoadwarrior76/garoutelog281_300.html Accessed January 23, 2007 and was slated to carry
U.S. Route 19 and U.S. Route 41 at one point.http://www.geocities.com/garoadwarrior76/SR295_1956 Accessed January 23, 2007 The route was heavily reconstructed during the 1980s as part of the Freeing the Freeways program to widen Atlanta-area interstates. Today the highway carries as many as 16 lanes of traffic in some sections, placing it among the widest roads in the world. In addition to the general purpose lanes, there is a High Occupancy Vehicle (
HOV) lane in each direction for the entire length of the highway. The proposed
Interstate 485 (Georgia) was originally planned by
GDOT to carry some north/south traffic through the eastern side of the city, but most of this was cancelled in the 1970s under
Jimmy Carter, former
governor of Georgia. (Parts of that road are now
Interstate 675 (Georgia) and State Route 400 (Georgia).)
The Downtown Connector carries more than 323,000 vehicles per day at its busiest point — between Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and Edgewood Avenue, while no portion of the Downtown Connector carries fewer than 236,000 vehicles per day. 2005 Annual Average Daily Traffic Report (AADT). Georgia Department of Transportation, Office of Transportation Data. Last accessed January 2, 2007. The area around the connector and associated interchanges are considered one of the 10 most congested stretches of interstate in the U.S.. Due to this fact, many motorists often compare Atlanta to Los Angeles, California, which is also known for its notoriously-congested freeway system.
The highway is fully instrumented with
Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) devices. There are nineteen
closed-circuit television cameras between the Langford Pkwy interchange (south end) and the Brookwood Interchange (north end). Additionally, the Downtown Connector has three large overhead electronic message signs, and four smaller HOV-dedicated message signs on the median barrier wall. Traffic flow data is gathered through a video detection system, using pole-mounted black-and-white cameras spaced every 1/3 mile on both sides of the roadway. All video and data is fed into the Georgia Department of Transportation's Transportation Management Center (TMC), via
fiber optic cable located under the shoulders of the roadway.
The city's
skyline, both Downtown and Midtown Atlanta, can be seen from the highway, especially at the northern and southern ends. The route also goes directly past Turner Field; formerly known as
Centennial Olympic Stadium, where the opening and closing ceremonies and track and field events were held for the Centennial
1996 Summer Olympics.
Gallery
Image:13_Atlanta.jpg|North end of the Downtown Connector where I-75 and I-85 converge in
Midtown AtlantaImage:Atlanta 75.85.jpg|Downtown Connector view of the
Downtown Atlanta skylineImage:Downtown connector daytime.jpg|Downtown Connector facing south from Tenth Street bridgeImage:Downtown connector nighttime.jpg|Downtown Connector facing south from Fifth Street bridge; nighttime view
Exit list
Exits are numbered from south to north, in accordance with AASHTO guidelines.
Mile markers and exit numbers have always been posted according to I-75 only, but once re-joining I-85 the numbers continue as if the motorist were traveling I-85 the entire time (
not just picking up where they left off).{]!rowspan=2|Destinations!rowspan=2|Notes|-!Old!New|-!colspan=4|Southern terminus of Downtown Connector and I-85/ I-85
concurrency (road).
Freeway continues southbound as I-75 south.|-|87|242|
Interstate 85 (Georgia) south - Atlanta Airport, Montgomery, AL|Southbound exit and northbound entrance.
I-85 is concurrent with unsigned
Georgia State Route 403.|-|88|243|
State Route 166 (Georgia) (Langford Parkway) -
East Point (GA)|Southbound has I-75/I-85 concurrency. Northbound has I-75 only.|-|89|244|
University Avenue,
Pryor Street begins here.|-|90|245|[Abernathy Boulevard, Capitol Avenue,
Turner Field, [Central Avenue, Downtown, Turner Field and downtown northbound.
Signed "Fulton Street, Turner Field" southbound.|-|92|247| [Interstate 20 (Georgia) (Ralph D. Abernathy Freeway) - Augusta (GA), Birmingham, AL|Unsigned Georgia State Route 402 is concurrent with I-20.|-|93|248A|
Martin Luther King Jr. Drive,
State Capitol (Georgia)|Southbound exit and northbound entrance.|-|94|248B|Edgewood Avenue,
Sweet Auburn Avenue, John Wesley Dobbs||-|96|248C|
Georgia State Route 10 east -
Andrew Young International Boulevard, (Freedom Parkway) - Carter Center|Southbound exit only.|-|98|249B|[Pine Street,
Peachtree Street,
Civic Center (Atlanta)|Northbound exit only.
Exit to reach
Crawford Long Hospital.],
Georgia Dome/[U.S. Route 29 - Spring Street, West Peachtree Street|Northbound exit.
Exit to access U.S. Route 78 and
U.S. Route 278.|-|100|249D|
U.S. Route 78/
U.S. Route 278 (North Avenue) - Georgia Tech|Southbound exit.|-|101|250|10th Street, 14th Street, Georgia Institute of Technology|Northbound exit.No northbound entrance to I-85.|-|102|250|16th Street, 14th Street, 10th Street|Southbound exit. Exit to access Georgia Tech.|-|103|251|
Interstate 85 (Georgia) north -
Greenville, SC|Left exit northbound.|-!colspan=4|Northern terminus of Downtown Connector and I-85/ I-85 concurrency.
Freeway continues northbound as I-75 north|}
References
External links
- Near real-time traffic image of I-75/85 near the Brookwood Interchange
- Near real-time traffic image of I-75/85 near Tenth St
- Near real-time traffic image of I-75/85 near Grady Hosp
- Near real-time traffic image of I-75/85 at University Ave
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