Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
After I-485, and parts of SR 400 and SR 410, was canceled, a portion of the right-of-way of the canceled highway was used to build Freedom Parkway, now part of SR 10. SR 400 north of I-85 was constructed in the early 1990s as a toll road , [ 5 ] and the section south of I-285 was constructed in the mid-1980s and designated I-675 .
The original plans for the Atlanta freeway system (map, p.2 [permanent dead link ]) included several freeways that were never built.One was a north-south freeway parallel to, and 2–3 miles (3.2–4.8 km) east of today's Downtown Connector (I-75/85), connecting the southern end of today's Georgia 400 with I-675 at the southeast Perimeter.
The neighborhood faced a similar threat in the 1960s. In 1965, the Morningside Lenox Park Association (MLPA) was incorporated to fight plans to build I-485 through the neighborhood. By the late '60s, the state had bought property and demolished several homes for road right-of-way.
Piedmont Heights is an intown neighborhood on the east side of Atlanta, Georgia, founded in the early 20th century as a streetcar suburb.It is located between the BeltLine on the west; across from the Sherwood Forest neighborhood; I-85 on the north, across from an industrial area (Armour Drive); and Piedmont Avenue/Road and Morningside-Lenox Park on the east.
During this same period, there was an intense fight against the I-485 freeway which was to be built through the neighborhood, although many properties in Inman Park, as well as the entire neighboring neighborhood of Copenhill, were torn down in preparation for freeway construction.
AOL latest headlines, entertainment, sports, articles for business, health and world news.
Number Length (mi) Length (km) Southern or western terminus Northern or eastern terminus Formed Removed Notes I-75 BL: 10.0 [16]: 16.1 I-75 / US 84 / US 221 / SR 38 in Valdosta
(The Center Square) – King County Executive Dow Constantine has issued an executive order to revise the process for judicial inquiries into law enforcement-involved deaths. The executive order ...