Interstate 485 (Georgia)
{{short description|Former proposed highway in Georgia}}
{{For|the completed loop around Charlotte, North Carolina|Interstate 485}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2022}}
{{Use American English|date=August 2022}}
{{Infobox road
| state = GA
| type = I
| route = 485
| map = 1970 I-485-map.jpg
| map_notes = 1970 map of the proposed route of I-485 through northeast Atlanta
| maint = none
| length_mi = 5.9
| length_ref = {{cite web|url=https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/highwayhistory/data/page05.cfm|title=Part V - Interstate Withdrawal-Substitution Program - Engineering Data - Interstate System - Highway History|publisher=Federal Highway Administration|access-date=July 15, 2016}}
| established = 1964{{citation needed|date=June 2019}}
| deleted = 1975{{cite GDOT map |year= 1975 |access-date=July 30, 2016}}
| spur_type = I
| spur_of = 85
| counties = Fulton
| previous_type = I
| previous_route = 475
| next_type = SR
| next_route = 500
| browse = {{ga browse|previous_type=SR|previous_route=409|route=25px|next_type=SR|next_route=411}}
}}
Interstate 485 (I-485) is a cancelled auxiliary Interstate Highway that would have traveled eastward and then northward from Downtown Atlanta, in the US state of Georgia.
Route description
The {{convert|5.9|mi|km|adj=mid|-long}} route would have begun at the Downtown Connector (I-75/I-85) and used the highway that is now State Route 410 (SR 410) east to the interchange with the also-proposed SR 400. There, it would have turned north to end at I-85 near SR 236 (Lindbergh Drive). Each of those freeways would have continued beyond the termini of I-485. SR 410, the Stone Mountain Freeway, would continue east beyond the I-285 perimeter highway, and SR 400 would extend both south and north outside the perimeter. A short piece of I-485/SR 410 was constructed from I-75/I-85 east to Boulevard Northeast.{{Cite GDOT map |year=1973 |access-date=October 20, 2013 }}
History
{{Main|Atlanta freeway revolts}}
Activists in the neighborhood of Morningside, along the SR 400 portion of I-485, were the first to fight the road, although opposition surfaced in a number of nearby surrounding neighborhoods. This is the most famous example of the Atlanta freeway revolts.{{cite journal|last=Wheeler|first=James O.|year=1976|title=Locational Dimensions of Urban Highway Impact: An Empirical Analysis|journal=Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography |publisher=Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography|volume=58|issue=2|pages=67–78|doi=10.1080/04353684.1976.11879413 |jstor=490613}} 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,{{cite GDOT map |year= 1995 |access-date=July 12, 2016}} and the section south of I-285 was constructed in the mid-1980s and designated I-675.{{cite GDOT map |year= 1986 |access-date=July 15, 2016}}{{cite GDOT map |year= 1987 |access-date=July 15, 2016}}
See also
- {{portal-inline|Georgia (U.S. state)}}
- {{portal-inline|U.S. roads}}
- Transportation in Atlanta
- Interstate 420
References
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External links
- {{Commons category-inline}}
- [http://www.interstate-guide.com/i-485_ga.html Interstate 485 Georgia on Interstate-guide.com]
- [https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zVpgPFx_pfbc.kR1NlZYCmTak&hl=en The canceled I-485 route] (superimposed on Google Maps)
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