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{{Infobox road
|marker_image=[[Image:I-75.svg|88x70px]] [[Image:I-85.svg|88x70px]]
|state=GA
|type=I
|route=75/110
|name=Interstate 75/85
|alternate_name=James Wendell George Parkway
|map=
|maint=[[Georgia DOT]]
|length_mi=7.4
|length_round=2
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|established=1952<ref name="GDOT 1952">{{cite GDOT map |year= 1952 |access-date=July 15, 2016}}</ref>
|direction_a=South
|terminus_a={{Jct|state=GA|I|75|I|85}} towards [[Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport]]
|junction={{Jct|state=GA|SR|166}} in [[Atlanta]]<br>{{Jct|state=GA|I|20}} in [[Atlanta]]<br>{{Jct|state=GA|SR|10}} in [[Atlanta]]<br>{{Jct|state=GA|US|29|US|78|US|278|SR|8}} in [[Atlanta]]
|direction_b=North
|terminus_b={{Jct|state=GA|I|75|I|85}} in [[Midtown Atlanta]]
|counties=[[Fulton County, Georgia|Fulton]]
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In [[Downtown Atlanta]], the '''Downtown Connector''' or '''I-75/85''' (pronounced "seventy-five eighty-five") is the [[Concurrency (road)|concurrent]] section of [[Interstate 75 in Georgia|Interstate 75]] and [[Interstate 85 in Georgia|Interstate 85]] through the core of the city. Beginning at the I-85/[[Langford Parkway]] [[Interchange (road)|interchange]], the Downtown Connector runs generally due north, meeting the west–east [[Interstate 20 in Georgia|I-20]] in the middle. Just north of this is the '''Grady Curve''' around [[Grady Memorial Hospital]]. Continuing north, the terminus of the Downtown Connector is the '''Brookwood Interchange''' or '''Brookwood Split''' in the [[Brookwood, Atlanta|Brookwood]] area of the city. The overall length of the Downtown Connector is approximately {{convert|7.5|mi|km|0}}.<ref name="Google"/> Since the 2000s, it has been officially named '''James Wendell George Parkway''' for most of its length, although it is still designated the Connector in the mainstream. It also has [[Unsigned highway|unsigned designations]] State Route 401 (I-75) and State Route 403 (I-85) along its length, due to I-75 and I-85 having a 400-series reference numbers.
==History==
The Downtown Connector had its origins in the city's original system of expressways, construction of which began in the early 1950s with the Northeast Expressway and the South Expressway. Construction of the "connector" between the two, which was numbered '''State Route 295''',<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20070417221207/http://www.geocities.com/garoadwarrior76/garoutelog281_300.html Accessed January 23, 2007</ref> and was slated to carry [[U.S. Route 19 in Georgia|US 19]]/[[U.S. Route 41 in Georgia|US 41]] at one point, was not completed until the early 1960s.<ref>[http://www.geocities.com/garoadwarrior76/SR295_1956 http://www.geocities.com/garoadwarrior76/SR295_1956]{{dead link|date=October 2010|bot=AnomieBOT}} Accessed January 23, 2007</ref>
[[File:FreedomParkwayFormerInterstate485.jpg|thumb|Downtown Connector/Freedom Parkway Interchange what would have been I-485|110px]]
Initial construction of the highway displaced parts of Techwood Drive and Williams Street in [[Midtown Atlanta]]. It also destroyed street grids east and south of downtown, dividing [[Sweet Auburn]] in two and the interchange with [[Interstate 20 in Georgia|I-20]] leveling the northern part of the [[Washington-Rawson]] district. The proposed [[Interstate 485 (Georgia)|I-485]] was originally planned by the [[Georgia Department of Transportation]] to carry some south–north traffic through the eastern side of the city, but most of this was canceled in the 1970s by the [[governor of Georgia|then-governor of Georgia]] [[Jimmy Carter]] (Parts of that road are now [[Interstate 675 (Georgia)|I-675]] and [[Georgia State Route 400|SR 400]]).
The highway was heavily reconstructed during the 1980s as part of GDOT's [[Freeing the Freeways]] program to widen Atlanta-area freeways, with most of the Connector's width being doubled from three to six or seven lanes in each direction. In addition to the general-purpose lanes, provisions for [[High-occupancy vehicle lane|high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes]] and dedicated on-ramps at Williams Street, [[Piedmont Avenue (Atlanta)|Piedmont Avenue]], and Memorial Drive were built, and were subsequently converted to HOV usage in 1996.
Between 2000 and 2004, the six-lane wide 17th Street Bridge was constructed over the Brookwood Interchange, connecting Midtown Atlanta with the then-new [[Atlantic Station]] development. In 2008, reconstruction of the 14th Street Bridge took place in order to accommodate increased traffic flow and pedestrian amenities. This work also included the construction of two new off-ramps: a southbound ramp to 10th Street, and a northbound ramp to [[17th Street (Atlanta)|17th Street]]. This work was completed on May 28, 2010.
In early January 2010, a section of the highway between 14th and 17th streets developed an unusual problem dubbed "phantom ice" during a prolonged [[cold wave]] that kept temperatures below freezing for several days in the Atlanta region. GDOT engineers believe that [[2009 Atlanta floods|heavy rain]] in previous months raised the [[water table]] and caused it to seep upward through joints between [[lane]]s, where it subsequently froze. Commuter traffic was stopped briefly on at least two days in order to [[snow removal|treat]] it with [[deicing]] materials and inspect the freeway to determine the cause.<ref>http://www.11alive.com/news/news_story.aspx?storyid=139424&catid=40</ref>
==Features==
The Downtown Connector carries more than 272,000 vehicles per day at its busiest point — between [[List of streets named after Martin Luther King, Jr.#Atlanta, Georgia|Martin Luther King Jr. Drive]] and [[Edgewood, Atlanta|Edgewood]] Avenue, while no portion of the Downtown Connector carries fewer than 236,000 vehicles per day.<ref>[http://www.dot.state.ga.us/dot/plan-prog/transportation_data/traffic_counts/2005/cov2005.pdf 2005 Annual Average Daily Traffic Report (AADT)]. Georgia Department of Transportation, Office of Transportation Data. Last accessed January 2, 2007.</ref> The area around the connector and associated interchanges are considered one of the ten-most congested stretches of interstate in the U.S.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.forbes.com/2006/02/06/cx_bm_0207trafficslide_6.html?thisSpeed=6000|title=Worst City Choke Points|date=6 February 2006|work=Forbes}}</ref> Due to this fact, many motorists often compare Atlanta to [[Los Angeles]], which is also known for its notoriously-congested freeway system.
The highway is fully instrumented with [[Intelligent transportation system]] (ITS) devices. There are more than 25 [[closed-circuit television]] cameras between the Langford Parkway interchange (south end) and the Brookwood Interchange (north end). Additionally, the Downtown Connector has three large [[Variable-message sign|overhead electronic message signs]], and four smaller HOV-dedicated message signs on the median barrier wall. Traffic flow data is gathered through a video detection system, using pole-mounted black-and-white cameras spaced every {{convert|1/3|mi|km}} on both sides of the roadway. All video and data is fed into the GDOT's Transportation Management Center (TMC), via [[fiber optic cable]] located under the shoulders of the roadway. Virtually all entrance ramps are [[ramp meter|metered]], with the exception of the freeway-to-freeway connection ramps from I-20.
Atlanta's [[skyline]], both [[Downtown Atlanta|Downtown]] and [[Midtown Atlanta|Midtown]], can be seen from the highway, especially at the northern and southern ends.
==Gallery==
<gallery>
Image:13_Atlanta.jpg|North end of the Downtown Connector where I-75 and I-85 converge in [[Midtown Atlanta|Midtown]]
Image:Atlanta 75.85.jpg|Downtown Connector view of the [[Downtown Atlanta|downtown]] skyline
Image:Downtown connector daytime.jpg|Downtown Connector facing south from Tenth Street overpass
Image:Downtown connector nighttime.jpg|Downtown Connector facing south from Fifth Street bridge; nighttime view
Image:Downtownconnectoratlantaaerial.jpg|Aerial view of the Downtown Connector facing north from downtown
Image:Atlanta_downtown_connector_south.jpg|Aerial view of the Downtown Connector facing south from downtown
File:Bright Atlanta.jpg|Atlanta Downtown Connector at night
</gallery>
==Exit list==
{{mileposts}}
Exit numbers follow the mileposts along I-75.{{jcttop|old|state=GA|county=Fulton|location=Atlanta|length_ref=}}
{{GAint|old
|mile= 0.0
|old=87
|exit=242
|road={{jct|state=GA|I|85|dir1=south|location1=[[Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport|ATL Airport (Domestic)]]|location2=[[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]|city3=Columbus|extra=airport}}<br>{{jct|state=GA|I|75|dir1=south|location1=[[Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport|ATL Airport (International and Air Cargo)]]|city2=Macon|location3=[[Tampa, Florida|Tampa]]|extra=airport}}
|notes=Southbound exit and northbound entrance; freeway continues with HOV lanes to and from I-75 to the south (no HOV ramps to or from I-85 to the south)}}
{{GAint|old
|mile= 0.6
|old=88
|exit=243
|road={{jct|state=GA|SR|166|name1=Langford Parkway|city1=East Point}}
|notes=}}
{{GAint|old
|mile= 1.7
|old=89
|exit=244
|road=University Avenue, Pryor Street
|notes=}}
{{GAint|old
|type=incomplete
|mile= 2.5
|old=90
|exit=245
|road=Abernathy Boulevard, Capitol Avenue – [[Turner Field]]
|notes=Northbound exit and southbound entrance}}
{{GAint|old
|mile=
|old=91
|exit=246
|road=Fulton Street, Central Avenue – [[Downtown Atlanta|Downtown]]
|notes=}}
{{GAint|old
|type= hov
|mile= 2.7
|old= 91
|exit=246
|road= Central Avenue, [[Downtown Atlanta|Downtown]], [[Georgia State Capitol]]}}
{{GAint|old
|type=
|mile=3.2
|old=92
|exit=247
|road={{jct|state=GA|I|20|name1=Ralph D. Abernathy Freeway|location1=[[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]]|city2=Augusta}}
|notes=}}
{{GAint|old
|type=hov
|mile= 3.1
|old=— 93 A
|exit=—
|road=Memorial Drive
|notes=HOV ramps for northbound exit and southbound entrance}}
{{GAint|old
|type= incomplete
|mile= 3.9
|old=93
|exit=248A
|road=Martin Luther King Jr. Drive – [[Georgia State Capitol|State Capitol]]
|notes=Southbound exit and northbound entrance}}
{{GAint|old
|type=incomplete
|mile= 4.4
|old=94
|exit=248B
|road=Edgewood Avenue, Auburn Avenue, J.W. Dobbs Avenue
|notes=Northbound exit and southbound entrance}}
{{GAint|old
|mile= 4.6
|old=96
|exit=248C
|road={{jct|state=GA|SR|10|dir1=east|name1=[[Freedom Parkway]]|road=Andrew Young International Boulevard}} – [[Carter Center]]
|notes=}}
{{GAint|old
|type=incomplete
|mile= 5.0
|old=95
|exit=248D
|road=J.W. Dobbs Avenue, Edgewood Avenue
|notes=Southbound exit and northbound entrance}}
{{GAint|old
|type=hov
|mile= 4.6
|old=— 95 B
|exit=—
|road=[[Piedmont Avenue (Atlanta)|Piedmont Avenue]]
|notes=HOV ramps for northbound exit and southbound entrance}}
{{GAint|old
|type= incomplete
|mile= 5.5
|old=97
|exit=249A
|road=Courtland Street – [[Georgia State University]]
|notes=Southbound exit only}}
{{GAint|old
|type=incomplete
|mile= 5.7
|old=98
|exit=249B
|road=Pine Street, [[Peachtree Street]] – [[Atlanta Civic Center|Civic Center]]
|notes=Northbound exit only}}
{{GAint|old
|type=incomplete
|mile= 5.8
|old=99
|exit=249C
|road=Williams Street – [[Georgia World Congress Center]], [[Georgia Dome]]
|notes=No northbound exit}}
{{GAint|old
|type=hov
|mile= 6.0
|old= 99
|exit=
|road=Willams Street}}
{{GAint|old
|type= incomplete
|mile= 6.4
|old=
|notes=HOV ramps for southbound exit and northbound entrance}}
{{GAint|old
|exit=249D
|road=Spring Street, West Peachtree Street
|notes=Northbound exit and southbound entrance}}
{{GAint|old
|type=incomplete
|mile= 6.2
|old=100
|exit=249D
|road={{jct|state=GA|US|29|US|78|US|278|SR|8|name4=[[North Avenue (Atlanta)|North Avenue]]}} – [[Georgia Tech]]
|notes=Southbound exit and northbound entrance}}
{{GAint|old
|type=incomplete
|mile= 6.9
|old=101
|exit=250
|road=10th Street, 14th Street – [[Georgia Institute of Technology|Georgia Tech]]
|notes=Northbound exit and southbound entrance}}
{{GAint|old
|type=incomplete
|mile= 6.7
|old=102
|exit=250
|road=16th Street, 14th Street, 10th Street
|notes=Southbound exit from and northbound entrance to I-75 only; I-85 has a southbound exit to 17th-14th-10th streets (exit 84) but no northbound entrance}}
{{GAint|old
|type=incomplete
|mile= 7.0
|old=
|exit=251A
|road=17th Street – [[Midtown Atlanta|Midtown]]
|notes=Northbound exit only}}
{{GAint|old
|type=closed
|mile= 7.4
|old=103
|exit=251B
|road={{jct|state=GA|I|85|dir1=north|to2=to|SR|400|dir2=north|location1=[[Greenville, South Carolina|Greenville]]|location2=[[Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte]]}}<br/>{{jct|state=GA|I|75|dir1=north|city1=Marietta|location2=[[Chattanooga, Tennessee|Chattanooga]]}}
|notes=Left exits in both directions; main HOV lanes on Downtown Connector continue to and from I-85 to the north; freeway continues as I-75 beyond I-85 north with direct HOV ramps provided to and from I-75 to the north. I-85 north temporarily closed due to bridge collapse on March 30, 2017. <ref>http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/03/31/what-we-know--85-collapse-atlanta-and-how-detour-around-damages/99862628/</ref>}}
{{jctbtm|old|keys=incomplete,hov}}
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
{{Attached KML|display=title,inline}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080528110207/http://data.georgia-navigator.com/pub/images/cameras/gdot_cam_18.jpg Near real-time traffic image of I-75/85 near Tenth St]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080528110205/http://data.georgia-navigator.com/pub/images/cameras/gdot_cam_17.jpg Near real-time traffic image of I-75/85 near North Ave/Georgia Tech]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080528110210/http://data.georgia-navigator.com/pub/images/cameras/gdot_cam_11.jpg Near real-time traffic image of I-75/85 near Grady Hosp]
* [http://data.georgia-navigator.com/pub/images/cameras/gdot_cam_98.jpg Near real-time traffic image of I-75/85 south of University Ave] {{dead link|date=February 2011}}
* [http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/landingpage/collection/Etheridge Jack Etheridge Photographs, 1961-1962 of the downtown connector] from the [[Atlanta History Center]]
[[Category:Roads in Atlanta]]
[[Category:Interstate 75]]
[[Category:Interstate 85]]
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{{Infobox road
|marker_image=[[Image:I-75.svg|88x70px]] [[Image:I-85.svg|88x70px]]
|state=GA
|type=I
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|name=Interstate 75/85
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|map=
|maint=[[Georgia DOT]]
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In [[Downtown Atlanta]], the '''Downtown Connector''' or '''I-75/85''' (pronounced "seventy-five eighty-five") is the [[Concurrency (road)|concurrent]] section of [[Interstate 75 in Georgia|Interstate 75]] and [[Interstate 85 in Georgia|Interstate 85]] through the core of the city. Beginning at the I-85/[[Langford Parkway]] [[Interchange (road)|interchange]], the Downtown Connector runs generally due north, meeting the west–east [[Interstate 20 in Georgia|I-20]] in the middle. Just north of this is the '''Grady Curve''' around [[Grady Memorial Hospital]]. Continuing north, the terminus of the Downtown Connector is the '''Brookwood Interchange''' or '''Brookwood Split''' in the [[Brookwood, Atlanta|Brookwood]] area of the city. The overall length of the Downtown Connector is approximately {{convert|7.5|mi|km|0}}.<ref name="Google"/> Since the 2000s, it has been officially named '''James Wendell George Parkway''' for most of its length, although it is still designated the Connector in the mainstream. It also has [[Unsigned highway|unsigned designations]] State Route 401 (I-75) and State Route 403 (I-85) along its length, due to I-75 and I-85 having a 400-series reference numbers.
==History==
The Downtown Connector had its origins in the city's original system of expressways, construction of which began in the early 1950s with the Northeast Expressway and the South Expressway. Construction of the "connector" between the two, which was numbered '''State Route 295''',<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20070417221207/http://www.geocities.com/garoadwarrior76/garoutelog281_300.html Accessed January 23, 2007</ref> and was slated to carry [[U.S. Route 19 in Georgia|US 19]]/[[U.S. Route 41 in Georgia|US 41]] at one point, was not completed until the early 1960s.<ref>[http://www.geocities.com/garoadwarrior76/SR295_1956 http://www.geocities.com/garoadwarrior76/SR295_1956]{{dead link|date=October 2010|bot=AnomieBOT}} Accessed January 23, 2007</ref>
[[File:FreedomParkwayFormerInterstate485.jpg|thumb|Downtown Connector/Freedom Parkway Interchange what would have been I-485|110px]]
Initial construction of the highway displaced parts of Techwood Drive and Williams Street in [[Midtown Atlanta]]. It also destroyed street grids east and south of downtown, dividing [[Sweet Auburn]] in two and the interchange with [[Interstate 20 in Georgia|I-20]] leveling the northern part of the [[Washington-Rawson]] district. The proposed [[Interstate 485 (Georgia)|I-485]] was originally planned by the [[Georgia Department of Transportation]] to carry some south–north traffic through the eastern side of the city, but most of this was canceled in the 1970s by the [[governor of Georgia|then-governor of Georgia]] [[Jimmy Carter]] (Parts of that road are now [[Interstate 675 (Georgia)|I-675]] and [[Georgia State Route 400|SR 400]]).
The highway was heavily reconstructed during the 1980s as part of GDOT's [[Freeing the Freeways]] program to widen Atlanta-area freeways, with most of the Connector's width being doubled from three to six or seven lanes in each direction. In addition to the general-purpose lanes, provisions for [[High-occupancy vehicle lane|high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes]] and dedicated on-ramps at Williams Street, [[Piedmont Avenue (Atlanta)|Piedmont Avenue]], and Memorial Drive were built, and were subsequently converted to HOV usage in 1996.
Between 2000 and 2004, the six-lane wide 17th Street Bridge was constructed over the Brookwood Interchange, connecting Midtown Atlanta with the then-new [[Atlantic Station]] development. In 2008, reconstruction of the 14th Street Bridge took place in order to accommodate increased traffic flow and pedestrian amenities. This work also included the construction of two new off-ramps: a southbound ramp to 10th Street, and a northbound ramp to [[17th Street (Atlanta)|17th Street]]. This work was completed on May 28, 2010.
In early January 2010, a section of the highway between 14th and 17th streets developed an unusual problem dubbed "phantom ice" during a prolonged [[cold wave]] that kept temperatures below freezing for several days in the Atlanta region. GDOT engineers believe that [[2009 Atlanta floods|heavy rain]] in previous months raised the [[water table]] and caused it to seep upward through joints between [[lane]]s, where it subsequently froze. Commuter traffic was stopped briefly on at least two days in order to [[snow removal|treat]] it with [[deicing]] materials and inspect the freeway to determine the cause.<ref>http://www.11alive.com/news/news_story.aspx?storyid=139424&catid=40</ref>
==Features==
The Downtown Connector carries more than 272,000 vehicles per day at its busiest point — between [[List of streets named after Martin Luther King, Jr.#Atlanta, Georgia|Martin Luther King Jr. Drive]] and [[Edgewood, Atlanta|Edgewood]] Avenue, while no portion of the Downtown Connector carries fewer than 236,000 vehicles per day.<ref>[http://www.dot.state.ga.us/dot/plan-prog/transportation_data/traffic_counts/2005/cov2005.pdf 2005 Annual Average Daily Traffic Report (AADT)]. Georgia Department of Transportation, Office of Transportation Data. Last accessed January 2, 2007.</ref> The area around the connector and associated interchanges are considered one of the ten-most congested stretches of interstate in the U.S.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.forbes.com/2006/02/06/cx_bm_0207trafficslide_6.html?thisSpeed=6000|title=Worst City Choke Points|date=6 February 2006|work=Forbes}}</ref> Due to this fact, many motorists often compare Atlanta to [[Los Angeles]], which is also known for its notoriously-congested freeway system.
The highway is fully instrumented with [[Intelligent transportation system]] (ITS) devices. There are more than 25 [[closed-circuit television]] cameras between the Langford Parkway interchange (south end) and the Brookwood Interchange (north end). Additionally, the Downtown Connector has three large [[Variable-message sign|overhead electronic message signs]], and four smaller HOV-dedicated message signs on the median barrier wall. Traffic flow data is gathered through a video detection system, using pole-mounted black-and-white cameras spaced every {{convert|1/3|mi|km}} on both sides of the roadway. All video and data is fed into the GDOT's Transportation Management Center (TMC), via [[fiber optic cable]] located under the shoulders of the roadway. Virtually all entrance ramps are [[ramp meter|metered]], with the exception of the freeway-to-freeway connection ramps from I-20.
Atlanta's [[skyline]], both [[Downtown Atlanta|Downtown]] and [[Midtown Atlanta|Midtown]], can be seen from the highway, especially at the northern and southern ends.
==Gallery==
<gallery>
Image:13_Atlanta.jpg|North end of the Downtown Connector where I-75 and I-85 converge in [[Midtown Atlanta|Midtown]]
Image:Atlanta 75.85.jpg|Downtown Connector view of the [[Downtown Atlanta|downtown]] skyline
Image:Downtown connector daytime.jpg|Downtown Connector facing south from Tenth Street overpass
Image:Downtown connector nighttime.jpg|Downtown Connector facing south from Fifth Street bridge; nighttime view
Image:Downtownconnectoratlantaaerial.jpg|Aerial view of the Downtown Connector facing north from downtown
Image:Atlanta_downtown_connector_south.jpg|Aerial view of the Downtown Connector facing south from downtown
File:Bright Atlanta.jpg|Atlanta Downtown Connector at night
</gallery>
==Exit list==
{{mileposts}}
Exit numbers follow the mileposts along I-75.{{jcttop|old|state=GA|county=Fulton|location=Atlanta|length_ref=}}
{{GAint|old
|mile= 0.0
|old=87
|exit=242
|road={{jct|state=GA|I|85|dir1=south|location1=[[Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport|ATL Airport (Domestic)]]|location2=[[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]|city3=Columbus|extra=airport}}<br>{{jct|state=GA|I|75|dir1=south|location1=[[Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport|ATL Airport (International and Air Cargo)]]|city2=Macon|location3=[[Tampa, Florida|Tampa]]|extra=airport}}
|notes=Southbound exit and northbound entrance; freeway continues with HOV lanes to and from I-75 to the south (no HOV ramps to or from I-85 to the south)}}
{{GAint|old
|mile= 0.6
|old=88
|exit=243
|road={{jct|state=GA|SR|166|name1=Langford Parkway|city1=East Point}}
|notes=}}
{{GAint|old
|mile= 1.7
|old=89
|exit=244
|road=University Avenue, Pryor Street
|notes=}}
{{GAint|old
|type=incomplete
|mile= 2.5
|old=90
|exit=245
|road=Abernathy Boulevard, Capitol Avenue – [[Turner Field]]
|notes=Northbound exit and southbound entrance}}
{{GAint|old
|mile=
|old=91
|exit=246
|road=Fulton Street, Central Avenue – [[Downtown Atlanta|Downtown]]
|notes=}}
{{GAint|old
|type= hov
|mile= 2.7
|old= 91
|exit=246
|road= Central Avenue, [[Downtown Atlanta|Downtown]], [[Georgia State Capitol]]}}
{{GAint|old
|type=
|mile=3.2
|old=92
|exit=247
|road={{jct|state=GA|I|20|name1=Ralph D. Abernathy Freeway|location1=[[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]]|city2=Augusta}}
|notes=}}
{{GAint|old
|type=hov
|mile= 3.1
|old=— 93 A
|exit=—
|road=Memorial Drive
|notes=HOV ramps for northbound exit and southbound entrance}}
{{GAint|old
|type= incomplete
|mile= 3.9
|old=93
|exit=248A
|road=Martin Luther King Jr. Drive – [[Georgia State Capitol|State Capitol]]
|notes=Southbound exit and northbound entrance}}
{{GAint|old
|type=incomplete
|mile= 4.4
|old=94
|exit=248B
|road=Edgewood Avenue, Auburn Avenue, J.W. Dobbs Avenue
|notes=Northbound exit and southbound entrance}}
{{GAint|old
|mile= 4.6
|old=96
|exit=248C
|road={{jct|state=GA|SR|10|dir1=east|name1=[[Freedom Parkway]]|road=Andrew Young International Boulevard}} – [[Carter Center]]
|notes=}}
{{GAint|old
|type=incomplete
|mile= 5.0
|old=95
|exit=248D
|road=J.W. Dobbs Avenue, Edgewood Avenue
|notes=Southbound exit and northbound entrance}}
{{GAint|old
|type=hov
|mile= 4.6
|old=— 95 B
|exit=—
|road=[[Piedmont Avenue (Atlanta)|Piedmont Avenue]]
|notes=HOV ramps for northbound exit and southbound entrance}}
{{GAint|old
|type= incomplete
|mile= 5.5
|old=97
|exit=249A
|road=Courtland Street – [[Georgia State University]]
|notes=Southbound exit only}}
{{GAint|old
|type=incomplete
|mile= 5.7
|old=98
|exit=249B
|road=Pine Street, [[Peachtree Street]] – [[Atlanta Civic Center|Civic Center]]
|notes=Northbound exit only}}
{{GAint|old
|type=incomplete
|mile= 5.8
|old=99
|exit=249C
|road=Williams Street – [[Georgia World Congress Center]], [[Georgia Dome]]
|notes=No northbound exit}}
{{GAint|old
|type=hov
|mile= 6.0
|old= 99
|exit=
|road=Willams Street}}
{{GAint|old
|type= incomplete
|mile= 6.4
|old=
|notes=HOV ramps for southbound exit and northbound entrance}}
{{GAint|old
|exit=249D
|road=Spring Street, West Peachtree Street
|notes=Northbound exit and southbound entrance}}
{{GAint|old
|type=incomplete
|mile= 6.2
|old=100
|exit=249D
|road={{jct|state=GA|US|29|US|78|US|278|SR|8|name4=[[North Avenue (Atlanta)|North Avenue]]}} – [[Georgia Tech]]
|notes=Southbound exit and northbound entrance}}
{{GAint|old
|type=incomplete
|mile= 6.9
|old=101
|exit=250
|road=10th Street, 14th Street – [[Georgia Institute of Technology|Georgia Tech]]
|notes=Northbound exit and southbound entrance}}
{{GAint|old
|type=incomplete
|mile= 6.7
|old=102
|exit=250
|road=16th Street, 14th Street, 10th Street
|notes=Southbound exit from and northbound entrance to I-75 only; I-85 has a southbound exit to 17th-14th-10th streets (exit 84) but no northbound entrance}}
{{GAint|old
|type=incomplete
|mile= 7.0
|old=
|exit=251A
|road=17th Street – [[Midtown Atlanta|Midtown]]
|notes=Northbound exit only}}
{{GAint|old
|type=
|mile= 7.4
|old=103
|exit=251B
|road={{jct|state=GA|I|85|dir1=north|to2=to|SR|400|dir2=north|location1=[[Greenville, South Carolina|Greenville]]|location2=[[Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte]]}}<br/>{{jct|state=GA|I|75|dir1=north|city1=Marietta|location2=[[Chattanooga, Tennessee|Chattanooga]]}}
|notes=Left exits in both directions; main HOV lanes on Downtown Connector continue to and from I-85 to the north; freeway continues as I-75 beyond I-85 north with direct HOV ramps provided to and from I-75 to the north.}}
{{jctbtm|old|keys=incomplete,hov}}
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080528110207/http://data.georgia-navigator.com/pub/images/cameras/gdot_cam_18.jpg Near real-time traffic image of I-75/85 near Tenth St]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080528110205/http://data.georgia-navigator.com/pub/images/cameras/gdot_cam_17.jpg Near real-time traffic image of I-75/85 near North Ave/Georgia Tech]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080528110210/http://data.georgia-navigator.com/pub/images/cameras/gdot_cam_11.jpg Near real-time traffic image of I-75/85 near Grady Hosp]
* [http://data.georgia-navigator.com/pub/images/cameras/gdot_cam_98.jpg Near real-time traffic image of I-75/85 south of University Ave] {{dead link|date=February 2011}}
* [http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/landingpage/collection/Etheridge Jack Etheridge Photographs, 1961-1962 of the downtown connector] from the [[Atlanta History Center]]
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