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Diverging Diamond Interchange

Can you DDI?  Employees, residents and visitors in the Perimeter area may soon be asking each other that question. Beginning Monday, June 4 there will be a new way to travel through the I-285 Interchange at Ashford Dunwoody Road. The Perimeter Community Improvement Districts (PCIDs) and the Georgia Department of ...

• 1:09 p.m. Tuesday, May 22, 2012

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Diverging Diamond Interchange

Beginning Monday, June 4 there will be a new way to travel through the I-285 Interchange at Ashford Dunwoody Road. The busy interchange near Perimeter Mall will become a Diverging Diamond Interchange.

• 12:04 p.m. Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Do you trust TSPLOST?

Two months before Metro Atlanta voters head to the polls to decide a transportation sales tax referendum, residents appear split.  A Rosetta Stone poll for Channel 2 Action News shows Fulton and Dekalb county voters favor the TSPLOST; other counties do not.  “I think the critical T in TSPLOST is ...

• 9:45 a.m. Tuesday, May 22, 2012
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Atlanta shows sharp increase in traffic

This economy has kept cars off the roads in many metro areas, but not Atlanta.  While traffic jams have dropped in dozens of metro areas, Atlanta is among the cities with the biggest increase in traffic congestion in 2011.  Correspondent Vicki Barker says Atlanta is not one of the 10 ...

• 9:39 a.m. Tuesday, May 22, 2012
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Lack of hazmat suits delay I-85 cleanup

The early morning truck fire on I-85 had officials scrambling for the cleanup. When Barrow Co fire crews arrived at the scene I-85 and Ga. 211 and saw placards on the truck indicating it was hauling corrosives, the county's assistant Police Chief Lou Solis said, "Firefighters looked it up in ...

• 9:12 a.m. Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Ga. 400 commuter: "Another harebrained idea by the DOT"

Day one of using the emergency lane on GA 400 southbound, and how did it work for you? "Not too good," one commuter told News/Talk WSB.  "You would think that the Georgia DOT could have waited possibly a week later to implement these changes.  Fulton County schools are actually finished ...

• 9:37 a.m. Monday, May 14, 2012
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Latest From the WSB 24-hour Traffic Center

Real Time Traffic Maps & Cameras  Become a Traffic Trooper and call the WSB Traffic Center's Champion Windows Traffic and News Tip Line 24 hours a day, seven days a week: #750 for free on Verizon Wireless or 404-897-7358 on other carriers.  Remember, you can't use the new I-85 HOT/Express ...

• Updated: 6:48 p.m. Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Watch out for new traffic signs

You may notice some new signs going up this week at a major Midtown intersection. The diamond-shaped yellow signs are being placed at Peachtree and North Avenue with the help of Allstate Insurance. They warn motorists to watch out for people on motorbikes, and this intersection was found to be ...

• 11:08 a.m. Thursday, May 3, 2012

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Mark Arum Weekend Construction outlook

Updated every Friday, Mark Arum tells us where we can find construction, events and anything else to slow us down on the roads this weekend.

• 12:28 p.m. Thursday, April 26, 2012

Off-Duty APD cop gets DUI in wrong way crash

APD veteran officer Christopher J. Niezurawski was off-duty and allegedly drunk and driving the wrong way on I-85 when his car was hit by the southbound Greyhound bus, heading to Virginia. An off-duty Dekalb County officer spotted Niezurawski's car northbound in the southbound lanes between Northcrest and Pleasantdale roads. The ...

• 11:25 a.m. Thursday, April 26, 2012
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