[ale] OT: Best way to go from I75 north to 20 west in Atlanta

[Jeff Hubbs]

If your relatives are fully "mobiled up," what I think they need to do 
is call up e.g. Google Maps as they approach Atlanta, enter the next 
town they want to get to, and let it sort out the traffic according to 
its best reckoning and tell them which way to go. In my experience with 
that particular app, it does not have "right now" knowledge of the 
large-/small-scale traffic situation and it can't seem to discern 
whether, say, you're at a near stop in the right-hand lanes of the 
interstate versus over on the left where cars are still going 50MPH, but 
it's pretty good and far, far more useful than any radio traffic report.

On 5/24/17 3:50 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm from Orlando Florida, and all I know about Atlanta traffic is that
> the traffic on I75 is usually horrible from mile marker 185 near
> Forsythe up past downtown Atlanta up to about mile marker 285. I once
> averaged 10mph on I75, north of downtown Atlanta, for two straight
> hours, on a Saturday night at 10:30pm. I also know that once, trying to
> avoid that kind of traffic, I took the I285 loop to bypass mile markers
> 238 thru 259, and that was horrible too.
>
> I have relatives who need to drive from Orlando to Los Angeles in early
> September. They want to take the north route (I40) instead of the south
> route (I10) due to the extreme heat in September. To the extent
> possible, they want to stick to the Interstate freeway system.
>
> If traffic were not an issue, I75 to I20 to I22 to I40 would be
> perfect. So I have some questions about traffic:
>
> Is the traffic on I20 west of downtown as bad as I75 traffic? How far
> west of downtown is it below 40mph?
>
> Would I75 to I285 to I20 be better than I75 directly to I20, or is I285
> still so full of construction that it's slower than I75?
>
> Thanks,
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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