FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                                                     CONTACT:  Susan Long 770-390-1794 or 478-256-5975

June 18, 2012                                                                                                                                             slong@perimetercid.org

‘SLIP LANE’ ONTO LAKE HEARN TO OPEN TUESDAY

AT I-285-ASHFORD DUNWOODY DIVERGING DIAMOND INTERCHANGE

The new “slip lane” onto Lake Hearn Drive from the I-285 east bound off ramp to Ashford Dunwoody Road will re-open Tuesday (June 19), weather permitting, according to the Perimeter Community Improvement Districts (PCIDs).

The old “slip lane” was closed March 6 for construction of Georgia’s first Diverging Diamond Interchange (DDI).

 “The new ‘slip lane’ replicates the access to major employers such as Auto Trader, Cox Communications and Crawford and Company just as it did before the lane was closed for DDI construction,” said David Purcell, chief operating officer of the PCIDs, a partner in the DDI project with the Georgia Department of Transportation.

“Unfortunately all components of the new DDI design and construction could not happen at once,” Purcell said, noting that the major part of the DDI design, crossover traffic, was completed and opened on June 3 at the I-285 and Ashford Dunwoody Bridge.

“The ‘slip lane’ was paved during the weekend and the guardrail will be installed Monday (June 18) and the lane will be opened to traffic Tuesday morning,” Purcell said.  “This is the promise we have been given by the contractor.”

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