I-75 & I-85 - The Downtown Connector - Atlanta - Georgia - 4K Highway Night Drive

A Sunday night drive down Atlanta's famous "Downtown Connector" super-highway. Includes views of the Downtown Atlanta Skyline and the Midtown Atlanta Skyline.
Filmed: June 2020
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From Wikipedia:
In Downtown Atlanta, the Downtown Connector or 75/85 (pronounced "seventy-five eighty-five") is the concurrent section of Interstate 75 and Interstate 85 through the core of the city. Beginning at the I-85/Langford Parkway interchange, the Downtown Connector runs generally due north, meeting the west-east 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 area of the city. The overall length of the Downtown Connector is approximately 7.5 miles (12 km). 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 designations State Route 401 (I-75) and State Route 403 (I-85) along its length, due to I-75 and I-85 having 400-series reference numbers.
The Downtown Connector carries more than 437,000 vehicles per day at its busiest point - just south of 10th Street in Midtown, while the least traveled portion carries 243,000 vehicles per day - just south of Fulton Street, near the interchange with Interstate 20. The area around the connector and associated interchanges are considered one of the ten-most congested stretches of interstate in the U.S. 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 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 1⁄3 mile (0.54 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 metered, with the exception of the freeway-to-freeway connection ramps from I-20.
Atlanta's skyline, both Downtown and Midtown, can be seen from the highway, especially at the northern and southern ends.

[@crollwtide9452]

7:18 Damn, that guy almost sideswiped you! That was nuts!

[@MileageMikeTravels]

People get crazy on the road at night it seems.

[@gacaptain]

@@sharonrivers1347 You see that all the time on Atlanta highways. I think it's guys racing half the time.

[@Red-pt6rs]

Atlanta has and great skyline

[@leonation89]

The whole time I'm thinking you going south and you was going North. I realized that when I saw the sign that said 85 North Chattanooga/Greenville lol.

[@MileageMikeTravels]

Oh yeah I’ve always liked the view coming from the south better than the one from the north.

[@crollwtide9452]

I almost did the same thing myself but realized what was going on when I saw Langford Parkway coming up. I knew what side he was on then.

[@fartyarcidentertainment]

@@MileageMikeTravels Yeah, travelling north means I'm gettin' the Hell outta there!🤣

[@MasonColemanWright1234]

I wanted to move to Atlanta

[@user-hf3eb8lj5g]

7:18 smh....

[@user-hf3eb8lj5g]

Tap the time stamp then you’ll know

[@user-hf3eb8lj5g]

@Gess C right!!!!

[@MileageMikeTravels]

I've started to notice that people drive crazy at night. Have to be on heightened alert to avoid these guys.

[@jonthegamerboy]

@@MileageMikeTravels, people drive like that here in Corpus Christi even during the day, we probably have the worst drivers in America

[@ireece]

Nice driving 😃

[@donavanjohnson409]

Great drive on interstate 75 and 85 at night

[@ryanhowell4492]

Cool Driving

[@skullyskullington9668]

7:18 Classic BMW

[@optimatus.]

downtown connector always has heavy traffic but is usually never slow

[@miguelmartinez-juarez1029]

Can you do the I-20 East and Westbound night video???

[@AtibaVV]

🔥🔥

[@kennypalermo9071]

You like driving at night. Remember, Can you do a highway daylight video?

[@MileageMikeTravels]

Of course

[@kennypalermo9071]

@@MileageMikeTravels Of course

[@tonyagaines7264]

Good video you're weclome

[@MileageMikeTravels]

Thanks.

[@kiwiinterstates3190]

Gotta love the downtown connector...always the worst part of my trips to Alabama lol

[@MileageMikeTravels]

Lol yeah. 285 often times isn’t any better so you don’t have a choice.

[@kiwiinterstates3190]

@@MileageMikeTravels ohh 285 is usually worse...

[@TommyJonesProductions]

Yeah, all those people who refuse to go around I-285 and cut through the city create a lot of traffic.

[@w-josh]

⁠@@TommyJonesProductionsThat is definitely not the reason, because the traffic is often worse on I-285. The reasons are
1. There is never a better way to get around Atlanta traffic/alternative route because the only routes that parallel are side roads with tons of turns and red lights, & are very indirect.
2. The Downtown Connector has too many lanes, lane drops, exits within a short distance, and many short merging ramps, and some short exit ramps as well.
3. Most people in Atlanta don’t know how to drive. Many people don’t know how to accelerate onto a freeway (if you can that is), or many are driving far above the limit, people weave through traffic often to pass, and they tailgate worser than almost any city in the US. Signals are not an absence here, but many people think if they use them, they automatically have the right of way.
4. It often doesn’t make sense to go I-285 from most directions unless you are getting on a different interstate & many destinations are inside of I-285

[@TommyJonesProductions]

@@w-josh When you live in the city, you rarely have to deal with I-285, since it's out in the suburbs, where the roads are packed with morons. Ever notice how much traffic clears up the moment you cross inside 285?
The traffic in the city isn't bad once the suburbanites go home. It's odd because you'd think, given so much extra driving from everything being so far apart, that they'd get better at it.

[@shirlenapatterson3306]

Is it snowing?

[@MileageMikeTravels]

No. Just the lights reflecting off the windshield and the camera lens create that effect. I’m working on fixing that for future videos.

[@shirlenapatterson3306]

@@MileageMikeTravels ok sorry! but do it snow there i heard it do but im not sure?

[@MileageMikeTravels]

@@shirlenapatterson3306 yeah Atlanta does get snow sometimes.