North Atlanta

ADAD437 wrote:
exactly where is it blocked? i will be traveling the section from i-285 to gainesville sunday morning.

You will be OK. The collapsed bridge is inside I-285 where Ga. Hwy. 400 intersects with I 85. This morning, I 85 northbound is closed at its intersection with I 5 in downtown Atlanta and rerouted onto I 75. I 85 southbound is re routed onto surface streets and Ga Hwy 400 northbound. All of this is inside I 285.

exactly where is it blocked? i will be traveling the section from i-285 to gainesville sunday morning.

Last weekend I was going to NE Georgia and drove to Lagrange then straight North to Rome and then straight East. All that to avoid Atlanta, it is horrible. I took the route and additional hour of driving to get around Atlanta.

Atlanta traffic is a cluster without any problems, add in weather or an accident and it gets bad, I can't imagine what it will be like with a major road closed. Back in December I drove 14 hours straight because I couldn't leave until early afternoon and there was no way I was stopping north of Atlanta and fighting rush hour traffic if I could drive a few more hours and get south of town. Coming home I stopped after only 7 hours driving because I didn't want to fight Friday afternoon rush hour, way better to go through Saturday morning. Basically if I didn't hate 77 through the mountains I'd do almost anything to avoid normal Atlanta traffic so the idea of driving through there any time in the next few months gives me cold sweats and I'm hundreds of miles away =)

You are the fourth one I've seen to post on this. One heck of a fire and from what I saw as a caption to one of the video feeds it was caused by a semi-load of PVC conduit. How that got set on fire must be a real tale.