Traffic Alternatives
Expect traffic delays on the downtown connector (I-75/I-85).
Georgia's Department of Transportation
repaving project
is expected
to cause major traffic delays in Atlanta every weekend for the
next 8 months. Up to 3 lanes will be closed from 9 p.m. Friday (May 2)
until 5 a.m. Monday (May 5) and again at 9 p.m. on Friday (May 9) until
5 a.m. Monday (May 12).
In February, the
14th Street Bridge Improvement Project closed
the ramps to 14th and 10th streets and closed Techwood Drive between 16th and
10th streets.
Please use our alternate routes below and allow extra travel time.
I-85 Southbound alternate route
- Take I-85 S to Exit 86 for GA-13 South to Peachtree Street.
- Merge onto GA-13 South.
- Take the exit for US-19/GA-9/Peachtree Street to Buckhead.
- Stay left for US-19/GA-9 SOUTH/Spring Street/Peachtree Street.
- Take the RIGHT lane to get onto US-19/GA-9 SOUTH to Spring Street/Downtown.
- Turn right onto Spring Street (Help-U-Sell is in front of you).
- Turn right onto 10th Street (Chevron Station is ahead on the right).
- Go over I-75/85.
- Turn left onto Hemphill Avenue (Institute for Paper Science and Technology
on left).
- Where Hemphill ends at Ferst Drive, cross Ferst into the parking lot
and make an immediate left into the Visitors Parking.
Parking fees are $0.75/half hour with an $8 maximum.
I-75 Southbound alternate route
- Take I-75 South to Exit 255: W. Paces Ferry / SR 3 / US 41 / Northside
Parkway.
- At the end of the ramp, turn left onto West Paces Ferry Road and immediately
get into the rightmost lane.
- Turn right at the light onto Northside Parkway. (OK Cafe will be in front of
you.)
- Follow Northside Parkway, which will merge into Northside Drive. Stay in the
right lane, as the middle lane is a reversible lane. (You will go a total of
5 miles on Northside before you make your next turn.)
- Stay on Northside Drive, eventually crossing over I-75.
You will go under two different sets of railroad tracks, and just after
IKEA, there will be a slight left onto Hemphill Avenue. (You'll go left of
the BP station, while Northside Drive will go to its right.)
- Take Hemphill Avenue until it ends at Ferst Drive.
- Visitors Parking is directly across Ferst Drive immediately on the
left.
Parking fees are $0.75/half hour with an $8 maximum.
I-75/I-85 Nouthbound alternate route
- Exit #244 University/Pryor Streets
- Turn left at end of off-ramp onto University.
- Go 0.8 mile to 3rd red light, turn right onto
Metropolitian Parkway (formerly Stewart Avenue).
- Go 1.5 miles to 6th red light, yield right onto Northside Drive.
- Go 1.9 miles to 11th red light
(passing the Georgia World Congress Center),
turn right onto North Avenue.
- Go 0.3 mile to first red light on North Avenue, turn left (in front of
Coca Cola Company).
- Go one block to stop sign, turn left onto Tech Parkway.
- Go to red light, turn left onto Ferst Drive.
- Follow Ferst Drive around to second stop sign. Turn right;
Visitors Parking is immediately on the left.
Parking fees are $0.75/half hour with an $8 maximum.
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