- Interstate 20 in Georgia
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Interstate 20 Route information Maintained by Georgia DOT Length: 202.61 mi[1][2] (326.07 km) Major junctions West end: I-20 at Alabama state line
I-285 in Atlanta
I-75 / I-85 in Atlanta
I-285 near Atlanta
I-520 in Augusta
East end: I-20 at South Carolina state line in Augusta
Highway system Main route of the Interstate Highway System
Main • Auxiliary • BusinessGeorgia State Routes
Former SR← SR 401
SR 403 →
In Georgia, Interstate 20 runs from the Alabama border to the Savannah River, which the Georgia-South Carolina border straddles. It passes through the heavily congested Atlanta metropolitan area and exits the state at Augusta. The highway allows Georgians and various cargo to travel to various locations, including Columbia, South Carolina; Birmingham, Alabama; Jackson, Mississippi and Dallas, Texas. I-20 has the unsigned state highway designation of State Route 402.
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Route description
I-20 is four lanes in much of the state. In the Atlanta metro area, the highway ranges from six lanes in the most outlying counties to 10 lanes in downtown Atlanta.
I-20 enters the Peach State near Tallapoosa and after passing through western Georgia, it enters the Atlanta metropolitan area. On clear days, eastbound motorists get their first view of downtown Atlanta as they come over the top of the Six Flags Hill. The Six Flags Over Georgia amusement park is easily visible off exit 47 eastbound. In Atlanta, the highway passes through the heart of the city, crossing Interstate 75 and Interstate 85, which share a common expressway (the "Downtown Connector"). It continues though Metropolitan Atlanta eastward and through the eastern half of Georgia until it exits the state, crossing the Savannah River at Augusta.
Several stretches of Interstate 20 are named for various people and reasons:
- From the Alabama state line to I-285 on the west side of Atlanta, I-20 is named the Tom Murphy Freeway, after the former speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives.[3][4]
- Between both the west and east sides of The Perimeter (I-285), I-20 was named the Ralph David Abernathy Freeway in 1991 after the late civil rights activist.[5]
- From I-285 in Dekalb County to U.S. Route 441 near Madison, I-20 is named the Purple Heart Highway for military veterans who either died or were injured in combat while in service on or after April 15, 1917.[6]
- Between U.S. 441 and the South Carolina border, I-20 is named the Carl Sanders Highway after the former Georgia governor who was born in Augusta.[7]
Auxiliary routes
Interstate 520, a freeway spur that goes around the western and southern sections of Augusta before crossing into South Carolina.
History
Until 2000, the state of Georgia used the sequential interchange numbering system on all of its Interstate Highways. The first exit on each highway would begin with the number "1" and increase numerically with each exit. In 2000, the Georgia Department of Transportation switched to a mileage-based exit system, in which the exit number corresponded to the nearest milepost.[8][9]
Future
From the Alabama state line to Villa Rica, I-20 is currently being widened from 4 to 6 lanes in ultimate plans to widen to at least six lanes from Birmingham to Atlanta. Some sections are currently under construction.
Exit list
County Location Exit # Destinations Notes Old New Haralson 1 5 SR 100 – Tallapoosa, Bowdon
2 9 Waco Road Carroll 3 11 US 27 – Bremen, Carrollton
4 19 SR 113 – Carrollton, Temple
Villa Rica 5 24 SR 61 / SR 101 – Carrollton, Villa Rica
Douglas 6 26 Liberty Road – Villa Rica 7 30 Post Road Douglasville 8 34 SR 5 – Douglasville
9 36 Chapel Hill Road 10 37 SR 92 (Fairburn Road) – Douglasville
11 41 Lee Road – Lithia Springs 12 44 SR 6 (Thornton Road) – Austell
Cobb 13 46 Six Flags Drive, Riverside Parkway Signed as exits 46A (Riverside Parkway) and 46B (Six Flags Drive) westbound 13C 47 Six Flags Parkway Westbound exit and eastbound entrance Fulton 14 49 SR 70 (Fulton Industrial Boulevard)
Atlanta 15 51 I-285 – Macon, Montgomery, Chattanooga, Greenville
Signed as exits 51A (south) and 51B (north) 16 52 SR 280 (Hamilton E. Holmes Drive)
Signed as exits 52A (south) and 52B (north) westbound 17 53 SR 139 (Martin Luther King Jr. Drive)
18 54 Langhorn Street Westbound exit and eastbound entrance 19 55A Lowery Boulevard – West End 20 55B Lee Street – Atlanta University Center Westbound exit and eastbound entrance 21 56A McDaniel Street Eastbound exit and westbound entrance 22 56B Windsor Street, Spring Street – Turner Field 23 57 I-75 / I-85 – Macon, Montgomery, Chattanooga, Greenville
24 58A Capitol Avenue Westbound exit and eastbound entrance 25 58B Hill Street Westbound exit and eastbound entrance 26 59A Boulevard 27 59B Memorial Drive, Glenwood Avenue Eastbound exit and westbound entrance 28 60 US 23 (Moreland Avenue)
Signed as exits 60A (south) and 60B (north) eastbound DeKalb 29 61A Maynard Terrace Eastbound exit and westbound entrance 30 61B SR 260 (Glenwood Avenue)
31 62 Flat Shoals Road Eastbound exit and westbound entrance 32 63 Gresham Road, Flat Shoals Road 33 65 SR 155 (Candler Road) – Decatur
34 66 Columbia Drive Eastbound exit and westbound entrance 35 67 I-285 – Macon, Chattanooga, Greenville
Signed as exits 67A (south) and 67B (north) westbound 36 68 Wesley Chapel Road, Snapfinger Road 37 71 Panola Road 38 74 Evans Mill Road, Lithonia Industrial Boulevard – Lithonia 39 75 US 278 west / SR 124 (Turner Hill Road)
West end of US 278 overlap Rockdale 40 78 Sigman Road Conyers 41 80 West Avenue – Conyers 42 82 SR 20 / SR 138 – Conyers, Monroe
43 84 SR 162 (Salem Road)
Newton 44 88 Almon Road – Porterdale Covington 45 90 US 278 east – Covington, Oxford
East end of US 278 overlap 45A 92 Alcovy Road 46 93 SR 142 – Hazelbrand, Oxford, Covington
47 98 SR 11 – Monroe, Monticello
48 101 US 278
Walton Morgan 49 105 Newborn Road – Newborn, Rutledge 50 113 SR 83 – Madison, Monticello
51 114 US 129 / US 441 – Madison, Eatonton
52 121 Seven Islands Road – Buckhead Greene 53 130 SR 44 (Lake Oconee Parkway) – Eatonton
Siloam 54 138 SR 15 / SR 77 – Siloam, Union Point, Sparta, Greensboro
Taliaferro 55 148 SR 22 – Crawfordville, Sparta
Warren 56 154 US 278 – Warrenton, Washington
57 160 Cadley Norwood Road – Norwood 58 165 SR 80 – Camak
McDuffie 59 172 US 78 / SR 17 – Thomson, Washington
60 175 SR 150
Columbia 61 183 US 221 – Harlem
62 190 SR 388 – Grovetown
Evans 63 194 SR 383 (Belair Road, Dyess Parkway) – Evans
Richmond Augusta 63A 195 Wheeler Road 64 196 I-520 / SR 232 (Bobby Jones Expressway)
Signed as exits 196A (east) and 196B (west) 197 Walton Way Extension Westbound exit and eastbound entrance 65 199 SR 28 (Washington Road) – Augusta
66 200 SR 104 (River Watch Parkway) – Augusta
References
- ^ "Route Log and Finder List — Interstate System: Table 1". FHWA. http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/reports/routefinder/table1.cfm. Retrieved 2007-09-26.
- ^ "Interstate 20 @ Interstate-Guide.com". Interstate Guide. http://www.interstate-guide.com/i-020.html. Retrieved 2008-02-15.
- ^ Government and Politics: Tom Murphy (b. 1924), The New Georgia Encyclopedia. Web site accessed April 30, 2007.
- ^ Resolution 1991-18, Tom Murphy Freeway, Georgia Department of Transportation. Web site accessed April 30, 2007.
- ^ Resolution 1991-15: Ralph David Abernathy Freeway Georgia Department of Transportation. Accessed May 1, 2007.
- ^ Search results for Dekalb County Georgia Department of Transportation. Accessed May 1, 2007.
- ^ Search results for Carl Sanders Highway Georgia Department of Transportation. Accessed May 1, 2007.
- ^ Georgia's Interstate Exit Numbers Georgia Department of Transportation - online. Accessed April 30, 2007.
- ^ Interstate 20 Exit Renumbering Page Georgia Department of Transportation - online. Accessed April 30, 2007.
External links
- Georgia @ SouthEastRoads.com - Interstate 20
- Georgia Navigator — Georgia DOT site with real-time traffic information; includes traffic cameras within metro Atlanta area
- I-20 Augusta Real-Time Traffic Information — Georgia DOT site with real-time traffic information for I-20/I-520 Augusta construction area
- Georgia DOT news and information about I-20/I-520 upgrades in Richmond and Columbia counties
Interstate 20
Previous state:
AlabamaGeorgia Next state:
South CarolinaMajor Roads in Metro Atlanta Interstates and Freeways Interstate 75 (Northwest Expressway/Southeast Expressway) • Downtown Connector • Interstate 20 (R.D. Abernathy Freeway/West Expressway/East Expressway • Interstate 85 (Northeast Expressway/Southwest Expressway) • The Perimeter • Stone Mountain Freeway • Interstate 575 • Georgia 400 • University Parkway • Interstate 675 • Freedom Parkway • Buford Highway/Old 85 • Lanier Parkway • Langford Parkway • Ronald Reagan Parkway • South Fulton Parkway • Peachtree Industrial Boulevard
Major Throughfares Peachtree Street/Peachtree Road • Peachtree Boulevard/Peachtree Industrial Boulevard/Peachtree Parkway • Roswell Road • Ponce de Leon Avenue • North Avenue • D.L. Hollowell Parkway • Cobb Parkway • Metropolitan Parkway • Memorial Drive • Piedmont Avenue/Piedmont Road • West Paces Ferry Road • Buford Highway • Lawrenceville Highway • Spalding Drive • Sugarloaf Parkway
Unbuilt Expressways See also Freeway revolts in AtlantaInterstate Highways in Georgia Current Cancelled Auxiliary routes of Interstate 20 Texas: 820 — Louisiana: 220 • 420 (former) — Mississippi: 220 — Georgia: 420 (former) — Georgia-South Carolina: 520Categories:- Interstate Highways in Georgia (U.S. state)
- Interstate 20
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