Not content with national infamy, Atlanta recently landed at No. And, of course, 2014's Snowmageddon turned Atlanta into a late-night punchline. In 2015, the online magazine Vox found the Perimeter to be the deadliest interstate in the country. RELATED: Experts say fast bridge construction is safe Six other Atlanta bottlenecks also made the group's top 100. The 20-county metro region will add another 2.4 million people by 2040, and those new residents will crowd onto highways, trains and buses with the rest of us.Įarlier this year, the American Transportation Research Institute named Spaghetti Junction the worst truck bottleneck in the country. Other counties are considering their own plans for transportation fixes.īut here's the bad news: Even if it all gets built - not a sure thing, given concerns about federal funding and other question marks - the improvements will only be enough to keep up with the region's surging population, not actually improve traffic. Atlanta and Fulton County voters last year approved new sales taxes for a MARTA expansion and other transportation improvements. The Legislature's 2015 decision to raise gas and other taxes will generate up to $1 billion annually for road and bridge improvements. More good news: Georgia and the Atlanta region are finally getting serious about paying for those plans. And it includes another 93 miles of new mass transit lines. It includes 13 new freeway interchanges and the reconstruction of 22 more. It calls for building 963 miles of new lanes on key arterial roads. The Atlanta Regional Commission’s long-term transportation plan calls for spending $85 billion through 2040 to fix traffic. Here’s the good news: The region’s political leaders seem to understand Atlanta’s transportation challenges, and they’ve got plans to address them. There are times when I have to check myself and chill out.' 'I get angrier when I'm driving than any other time. to go north to Pleasant Hill Road or, even farther back, taking GA-400 to Peachtree Road on north to where it turns into Peachtree Industrial.'If I'm in a hurry, I just feel myself getting angry,' Ernst said. If you want to avoid Buford Highway, you could also take the longer option of traveling on I-285 West to Peachtree Industrial Blvd.You can also go the opposite way if you want to avoid Buford Highway backup, which will likely start to set in, by taking Clairmont Road to Lawrenceville Highway and continuing north to Pleasant Hill Road.

If you're inside the Perimeter traveling north, you can aim to get to Buford Highway via I-285 West, or even farther back from there, via Clairmont Road.down to Lawrenceville Highway, up to Pleasant Hill Road and then east back to I-85. Another option would be to take Jimmy Carter Blvd. west to Buford Highway and go north on Buford Highway up to Pleasant Hill Road, then take that road east back to I-85 North at Gwinnett Place. For those traveling north, you can similarly take Jimmy Carter Blvd.For those traveling south, the best way to go south and return to the interstate is to probably take Beaver Ruin Road all the way to Buford Highway, then continue on Buford Highway all the way to I-285, before taking I-285 East back to I-85 South.

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