Downtown Connector

Downtown Connector
James Wendell George Parkway
Route information
Maintained by Georgia DOT
Length	7.4 mi[2] (11.9 km)
Existed	1952[1]–present
Component highways	I-75 I-85
NHS	Entire route
Major junctions
South end	I-75 / I-85 towards Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
Major intersections	SR 166 in Atlanta I-20 in Atlanta SR 10 in Atlanta US 29 / US 78 / US 278 / SR 8 in Atlanta
North end	I-75 / I-85 in Midtown Atlanta
Location
Country	United States
State	Georgia
Counties	Fulton
Highway system
Interstate Highway System Main Auxiliary Suffixed Business Future Georgia State Highway System Interstate US State Special
← SR 294 → SR 296

In Downtown Atlanta, the Downtown Connector or 75/85 (pronounced "seventy-five eighty-five") is the concurrent section of Interstate 75 and Interstate 85 through the core of the city. Beginning at the I-85/Langford Parkway interchange, the Downtown Connector runs generally due north, meeting the west–east I-20 in the middle. Just north of this is the Grady Curve around Grady Memorial Hospital. Continuing north, the terminus of the Downtown Connector is the Brookwood Interchange or Brookwood Split in the Brookwood area of the city. The overall length of the Downtown Connector is approximately 7.5 miles (12 km).^[2] Since the 2000s, it has been officially named James Wendell George Parkway for most of its length, although it is still designated the Connector in the mainstream. It also has unsigned designations State Route 401 (I-75) and State Route 403 (I-85) along its length, due to I-75 and I-85 having 400-series reference numbers.