Atlanta, Ga

At 9:45 EST time on 1/30/14 per NBC - YES

cableguy574 wrote:
I am planning on going thru Atlanta Sunday morning on 75 north. Does anyone know if that is backed up with abandon cars from the snow storm

CNN just said that more than 2000 cars are still abandoned in Atlantic. Today, the officials are suppose to be assisting citizens in finding their abandoned cars, and in the live report they said there is still ice on the roadways, but it is starting to melt.

I would expect it to be cleared up by them. Weekend temps are guessed to be above freezing so they should have it cleared up but Atlanta can be bad anytime. It's a big city on par with Chicago, Philadelphia or St Louis.

DH and I were in Atlanta last weekend, before all the mess, and the Interstates there were lightly traveled most of the time during the day. I 20, I 75, I 85 and I 285 were easy to navigate with no one doing less than the speed limit, and most well over it! Temps are supposed to moderate beginning Friday and I have seen news reports with cars moving well already on the major roads. Safe travels!

News this morning, Atlanta was telling people to stay off the roads.

By Sunday the roads will be back to normal. There is always a fair amount of traffic in the Atlanta area. Try to avoid the morning and evening rush and you'll be fine.

The temperature for Sunday will be 63 degrees! There will be no aftermath by then, so travel on!

We live in the Atlanta area. Residents were asked to stay off the roads until noon today. Now they are saying that cars still abandoned on the interstates after today will be towed to facilitate traffic. We are expecting temperatures in the 60's this weekend, so you should be fine.However, we usually take 285 around the city instead of going through downtown. You might want to consider that option, too!

We're an hour south of Atlanta and a majority of the ice/snow is now melted. As mentioned,local news has said today was to be a big push to get abandoned cars off interstate and towing to start.

The Georgia DOT traffic web site has lots of good info on it including live camera views, incident markers and digital sign viewing.

Happily Retired 2 wrote:
We live in the Atlanta area. Residents were asked to stay off the roads until noon today. Now they are saying that cars still abandoned on the interstates after today will be towed to facilitate traffic. We are expecting temperatures in the 60's this weekend, so you should be fine.However, we usually take 285 around the city instead of going through downtown. You might want to consider that option, too!

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They will begin to tow the many remaining abandoned cars after 9pm tonight. I-75 north of Atlanta is in particularly bad shape, but should be good by Sunday.