View source for 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 = <ref name="FHWA">{{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}}</ref>
| established = 1964{{citation needed|date=June 2019}}
| deleted = 1975<ref name="GDOT 1975">{{cite GDOT map |year= 1975 |access-date=July 30, 2016}}</ref>
| spur_type = I
| spur_of = 85
| counties = [[Fulton County, Georgia|Fulton]]
| previous_type = I
| previous_route = 475
| next_type = SR
| next_route = 500
| browse = {{ga browse|previous_type=SR|previous_route=409|route=[[Image:Georgia 410.svg|25px]]|next_type=SR|next_route=411}}
}}

'''Interstate&nbsp;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 (U.S. state)|Georgia]].

==Route description==

The {{convert|5.9|mi|km|adj=mid|-long}}<ref name="FHWA"/> route would have begun at the [[Downtown Connector]] ([[Interstate 75 in Georgia|I-75]]/[[Interstate 85 in Georgia|I-85]]) and used the highway that is now [[Georgia State Route 410|State Route&nbsp;410]] (SR&nbsp;410) east to the [[Interchange (road)|interchange]] with the also-proposed [[Georgia State Route 400|SR&nbsp;400]]. There, it would have turned north to end at I-85 near [[Georgia State Route 236|SR&nbsp;236]] (Lindbergh Drive). Each of those freeways would have continued beyond the termini of I-485. SR&nbsp;410, the [[Stone Mountain Freeway]], would continue east beyond the [[Interstate 285 (Georgia)|I-285]] perimeter highway, and SR&nbsp;400 would extend both south and north outside the perimeter. A short piece of I-485/SR&nbsp;410 was constructed from I-75/I-85 east to Boulevard Northeast.<ref name="GDOT 1973">{{Cite GDOT map |year=1973 |access-date=October 20, 2013 }}</ref>

==History==
{{Main|Atlanta freeway revolts}}
Activists in the neighborhood of [[Morningside/Lenox Park|Morningside]], along the SR&nbsp;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]].<ref>{{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}}</ref> After I-485, and parts of SR&nbsp;400 and SR&nbsp;410, was canceled, a portion of the [[Right-of-way (transportation)|right-of-way]] of the canceled highway was used to build [[Freedom Parkway]], now part of [[Georgia State Route 10|SR&nbsp;10]]. SR&nbsp;400 north of I-85 was constructed in the early 1990s as a [[toll road]],<ref name="GDOT 1960">{{cite GDOT map |year= 1995 |access-date=July 12, 2016}}</ref> and the section south of I-285 was constructed in the mid-1980s and designated [[Interstate 675 (Georgia)|I-675]].<ref name="GDOT 1986">{{cite GDOT map |year= 1986 |access-date=July 15, 2016}}</ref><ref name="GDOT 1987">{{cite GDOT map |year= 1987 |access-date=July 15, 2016}}</ref>

==See also==
* {{portal-inline|Georgia (U.S. state)}}
* {{portal-inline|U.S. roads}}
* [[Transportation in Atlanta]]
* [[Interstate 420 (Georgia)|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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[[Category:Interstate Highways in Georgia (U.S. state)|85-4]]
[[Category:Proposed Interstate Highways|85-4 (Georgia)]]
[[Category:Cancelled highway projects in the United States|Interstate 85-4 (Georgia)]]
[[Category:Interstate 85|4 (Georgia)]]
[[Category:Auxiliary Interstate Highways|85-4 (Georgia)]]
[[Category:Roads in Atlanta]]
[[Category:Old Fourth Ward]]


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