Tom Moreland Interchange | |
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Spaghetti Junction | |
Location | |
Atlanta, Georgia | |
Coordinates | 33°53′30″N 84°15′33″W / 33.891744°N 84.259164°W |
Roads at junction | I-85 I-285 US 23 / SR 13 Buford Highway |
Construction | |
Type | Stack Interchange |
Constructed | 1983-1987 |
Opened | 1987 |
Maintained by | GDOT |
Tom Moreland Interchange, colloquially known as Spaghetti Junction, is the interchange of Interstate 85 (I-85) and I-285, along with several access roads, in northern DeKalb County, Georgia, northeast of Atlanta and just to the south of Norcross in Gwinnett County. It is named for Tom Moreland, a former commissioner of the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) from 1975 to 1987.
I-85 is a major traffic corridor from the northeastern suburbs of Atlanta in the Gwinnett County area into downtown Atlanta. I-285 is a beltway around Atlanta. In the northern I-285 corridor, in the area from I-85 counterclockwise to I-75, there has been a large amount of development of office space. The design of Spaghetti Junction was intended to remove choke points and reduce congestion in the I-85 and I-285 interchange, which had been a cloverleaf.[1]