This topic has been beat to death many times. Truth is all the routes around or thru the Atlanta area have heavy traffic almost all the time. Rush hour is a horror story. But most of the time non rush hour moves ok just a lot of traffic and speeders changing lanes. If there is any kind of accident you will be stuck in a long delay. I have sailed thru most of the time but when its bad its REALLY bad. Whenever possible I avoid Atlanta. Same for Baltimore/Washington or Boston/NY. Sometimes an extra 100 miles is well worth it.