Interstate 485 (I-485) is a cancelled
auxiliary Interstate Highway that would have traveled eastward and then northward from
Downtown Atlanta
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, in the
US state
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of
Georgia
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.
Route description
The
route would have begun at the
Downtown Connector
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(
I-75
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/
I-85) and used the highway that is now
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
SR 236 (Lindbergh Drive). 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 Northeast.
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. This is the most famous example of the
Atlanta freeway revolts.
After I-485, and parts of SR 400 and SR 410, was canceled, a portion of the
right-of-way of the canceled highway 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
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,
and the section south of I-285 was constructed in the mid-1980s and designated
I-675.
See also
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Transportation in Atlanta
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Interstate 420
References
External links
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Interstate 485 Georgia on Interstate-guide.comThe canceled I-485 route(superimposed on Google Maps)
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85-4 (Georgia)
Interstate 85-4 (Georgia)
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85-4 (Georgia)
Roads in Atlanta
Old Fourth Ward
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