In Atlanta, Georgia, the Downtown Connector or 75/85 (pronounced "seventy-five eighty-five") is the overlapped route of Interstate 75 and Interstate 85 through the core of the city, including downtown and midtown. Mile markers and exit numbers have always been posted according to I-75 only, but once re-joining I-85 the numbers continue as if the motorist were traveling I-85 the entire time (not just picking up where they left off). The Downtown Connector runs generally due north-south, and meets the east-west Interstate 20 in the middle. Just north of this is the Grady Curve around Grady Memorial Hospital. Farther north, the northern terminus is the Brookwood Interchange or Brookwood Split in the Brookwood area of the city.

The highway was constructed in the early 1950s as a six-lane thoroughfare, and was heavily reconstructed during the 1980s as part of the Freeing the Freeways program to widen Atlanta-area interstates. Today the highway carries as many as 16 lanes of traffic in some sections, placing it among the widest roads in the world. The proposed Interstate 475 was originally planned by GDOT to carry some of this traffic through the eastern side of the city, but most of this was cancelled in the 1970s under Jimmy Carter, former governor of Georgia. (Parts of that road are now Interstate 675 and State Route 400.) As of 2006, the Downtown Connector carries more than 340,000 vehicles a day and is considered one of the 10 most congested stretches of interstate in the U.S.^*. Due to this fact, many motorists often compare Atlanta to Los Angeles, California, which is also known for its notoriously-congested freeway system.

The city's skyline, both Downtown and Midtown Atlanta, can be seen from the highway, especially at the northern and southern ends. The route also goes directly past Turner Field; formerly known as Centennial Olympic Stadium, where the opening and closing ceremonies and track and field events were held for the Centennial 1996 Summer Olympics.

Exit list

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Exits are numbered from south to north, in accordance with AASHTO guidelines. Interstate 75 south - Macon; Air Cargo (State Route 401 south) Interstate 85 south - Atlanta Airport; Montgomery, AL (State Route 403 south) Interstate 20 (State Route 402)- Ralph D. Abernathy Freeway; Augusta; Birmingham, ALUS 78.svgUS 278.svgU.S. Route 19; U.S. Route 29; U.S. Route 78; U.S. Route 278; State Route 8- Spring Street; West Peachtree Street; North Avenue; Georgia Tech Tenth Street; Fourteenth Street (U.S. Route 19/State Route 9); Sixteenth Street; Seventeenth Street; Atlantic Station; Georgia TechInterstate 85 north to State Route 400 north - Greenville, SC (State Route 403 north) Interstate 75 north - Marietta; Chattanooga, TN (State Route 401 north)

#		Destinations	Notes
Old
		southbound exit and northbound entrance
87	242	southbound exit and northbound entrance
88	243	State Route 166 - Langford Parkway; East Point	exit 77 (old 23) on I-85 north
89	244	University Avenue (State Route 54); Pryor Street
90	245	Abernathy Boulevard; Capitol Avenue; Turner Field	northbound exit and southbound entrance
91	246	Fulton Street; Central Avenue; Downtown; Turner Field
92	247
93	248A	M L King Jr. Drive - State Capitol; Turner Field	southbound exit and northbound entrance
94	248B	Edgewood Avenue; Auburn Avenue; J W Dobbs Avenue; Jesse Hill Jr. Drive	exit 248D (old 95) southbound
96	248C	State Route 10 east - Andrew Young International Boulevard; Freedom Parkway; Carter Center
97	249A	Courtland Street - Georgia State University	southbound exit only
98	249B	Pine Street; Peachtree Street; Civic Center; Crawford Long Hospital	northbound exit only
99	249C	Williams Street; Georgia World Congress Center; Georgia Dome	no northbound exit
100	249D
102	250	no northbound entrance to I-85; exit 84 (old 26) on I-85 south
103	251	northbound exit and southbound entrance
		northbound exit and southbound entrance

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