Atlantans heeded advice and minimized the impact of the recent full I-285 closure, the first of many to come.
ATLANTA — Bracing for a full Metro Atlanta freeway to close for nearly 60 hours induces the kind of dread akin to having to clean a garage for the first time in years. The city has not seen a full freeway shut for multiple days since the cataclysmic 2017 I-85 bridge fire and collapse deleted that Northeast Atlanta corridor down for six weeks. But there was no bracing for that emergency.
GDOT postponed the complete shut down
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