Posted on 03/30/2017 5:40:45 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE
A oil or chemical fire, perhaps in a rail car under the I85 bridge in downtown Atlanta between I75 ,400, and I85 caused a section of I85 to collapse 1 hour ago. Traffic is expected to stopped for weeks until the elevated highway section is replaced.
NE of town just a little, between Midtown and Buckhead. Between the north Connector split and GA 400.
While it’s not on your travel path, it may affect traffic on your travel path. Hard to say what’s going to happen. If you have someone with you on the trip, I’d be checking traffic conditions with Google Maps and Waze, and be ready to possibly take I-285S around the west side of town, past I-20W, past I-85S, to I-75S.
Makes sense.
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Didn’t this happen in Philadelphia some years ago on I-95? A bunch of tires in a junkyard under 95 caught fire and the interstate collapsed?
“ity’s busy Piedmont Road and just south of Georgia 400, a major route to and from the northern Atlanta suburbs”
That’s what I was referring to
Looks like lightguide (fiber optic) conduit. Lots o’ BTUs there, I’m thinking.
My son works in Midtown, he heard tanker fire at Piedmont.
I’ll be curious what the real source turns out to be.
I know someone who is pretty high up in Federal DOT, involved in hazmat issues. I suspect he’ll have an inside story fairly quickly.
Take the beltway around city..... which is always a good idea...
It was spools just being stored there, I don’t know but each spool has about 500 feet of tubing and there were at least several dozen.
Just south of the 400 split. Right by the train yard.
Gonna screw up my heading to Florida for spring break.
They will rebuild that bridge in no time but once they do they will slow way down for any other project.
I remember how quick they put back the roads and bridges here in southern California after the 1994 earthquake.
I’ve seen the cables stored under there.
Yea, I use to have a rehearsal space right there. The GDOT has a huge fuel storage dump right there for HERO Units.
Those danged Russians!
We had something similar happen at I-696 at Woodward ave in Detroit a few years ago. A Gas semi hit the median and evetually blew up, taking the overpass with it. Screwed up things for the better part of a year. I-696 is the trunk line Between I-94 and the western suburbs. What a mess. I feel for you, ATL.
I recall this fire that shut down I-78 in New Jersey. Tire fire at an illegal dump. The article says it happened on Aug. 7th, and the highway reopened the following December!
You are bad!
If you are north of Atlanta. From 75 south, take 285 west to the airport. If you are going to Macon, best to take 285 east, then 675 to 75 south of Atlanta. You shouldn’t have a problem.
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