Interstate 485 (Georgia)

For the completed loop around Charlotte, North Carolina, see Interstate 485.

Interstate 485 marker

Interstate 485

1970 map of proposed route of I-485 through northeast Atlanta
Route information
Length: 5.9 mi[1] (9.5 km)
Existed: 1964 – 1975[2]
Location
Counties: Fulton
Highway system
  • Georgia State Routes
I475SR 500
SR 409SR 411

Interstate 485 (I-485) was a proposed Auxiliary Interstate Highway, that would have traveled eastward and then northward from downtown Atlanta, in the U.S. state of Georgia.

Route description

Downtown Connector/Freedom Parkway Interchange what would have been I-485

The 5.9-mile-long (9.5 km)[1] route would have begun at the Downtown Connector (I-75/I-85) and used the proposed State Route 410 (SR 410) east to the interchange with the also-proposed SR 400. There, it would have turned north to end at I-85 near Lindbergh Drive (SR 236). Each of those freeways would have continued beyond the termini of I-485. SR 410, the Stone Mountain Freeway, would continue east beyond the I-285 perimeter highway, and SR 400 would extend both south and north outside the perimeter. A short piece of I-485/SR 410 was constructed from I-75/I-85 east to Boulevard NE.[3]

History

Activists in the neighborhood of Morningside, along the SR 400 portion of I-485, were the first to fight the road, although opposition surfaced in a number of nearby surrounding neighborhoods.[4] After I-485, and parts of SR 400 and SR 410, was canceled, a portion of the right-of-way was used to build Freedom Parkway, now part of SR 10. SR 400 north of I-85 was constructed in the early 1990s as a toll road,[5] and the section south of I-285 was constructed in the mid-1980s and designated Interstate 675.[6][7]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Part V - Interstate Withdrawal-Substitution Program - Engineering Data - Interstate System - Highway History". Federal Highway Administration. Retrieved July 15, 2016.
  2. Georgia Department of Transportation (January 1975). Official Highway Map (PDF) (Map) (1975–76 ed.). Scale not given. Atlanta: Georgia Department of Transportation. Retrieved July 30, 2016.
  3. Georgia State Highway System (PDF) (Map). Cartography by GSHD. Georgia State Highway Department. January 1, 1973. Retrieved October 20, 2013.
  4. Wheeler, James O. (1976). "Locational Dimensions of Urban Highway Impact: An Empirical Analysis". Geografiska Annaler. Series B, Human Geography. Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography. 58 (2): 67–78. JSTOR 490613.
  5. Georgia Department of Transportation (1990). Official Highway and Transportation Map (PDF) (Map) (1994–95 ed.). Scale not given. Atlanta: Georgia Department of Transportation. Retrieved July 12, 2016.
  6. Georgia Department of Transportation (1986). Official Highway and Transportation Map (PDF) (Map) (1986–87 ed.). Scale not given. Atlanta: Georgia Department of Transportation. Retrieved July 15, 2016.
  7. Georgia Department of Transportation (1987). Official Highway and Transportation Map (PDF) (Map) (1987–88 ed.). Scale not given. Atlanta: Georgia Department of Transportation. Retrieved July 15, 2016.
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