Downtown Connector | ||||
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| James Wendell George Parkway | ||||
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| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by Georgia DOT | ||||
| Length | 7.4 mi[2] (11.9 km) | |||
| Existed | 1952[1]–present | |||
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| NHS | Entire route | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| South end |   I-75 / I-85 towards Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport | |||
| North end | I-75 / I-85 in Midtown Atlanta | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | Georgia | |||
| Counties | Fulton | |||
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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).[2] 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.
- ^ State Highway Department of Georgia (1952). System of State Roads (PDF) (Map). Scale not given. Atlanta: State Highway Department of Georgia. OCLC 5673161. Retrieved July 15, 2016. (Corrected to January 1, 1952.)
- ^ a b Google (July 30, 2016). "Route of Downtown Connector (I-75/85)" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved July 30, 2016.