Driving on the Downtown Connector through Atlanta

Driving on the Downtown Connector (I-75 and I-85 erged) through Midtown and Downtown Atlanta. I removed the audio track because my parents were being annoying.

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• Atlanta
• Downtown
• Connector
• I85
• I-85
• I-75
• I75
• Interstate
• Highway
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• Driving

[yearofthefreshman08]

Oh trust me if they were moving that slowed they would have gotten hit. We ride at least 80 - 85 mph we be pushing it!! Lolz

[musicfreakcc]

Sadly, even 80-85mph is still slow for the connector when it's not a parking lot.

[bigchris1257]

25 mph or what?

[musicfreakcc]

I was going 55-65. Atlanta's fast drivers make it seem like 25mph.

[WarrantedFaith]

@bigchris1257 Each dash on a highway is suppose to be 9 feet from the next, so just look at how quickly the dashes appear to move into the dashboard of the car and you can do the math ;). I'd say they're actually going more like 70-72, but I'm not the one who made the video. Atlanta traffic is pretty insane though ... the *flow* of traffic is around 15 to 20mph over the speed limit on this road sometimes, so even at 70 there would be people passing him.

[musicfreakcc]

@WarrantedFaith I normally drive about 65-70, and those lines are completely strange as they don't follow any of the usual conventions. Before the 1996 olympics, the city removed all the existing lines and made all the lanes narrower to squeeze in an extra HOV lane.

[ATLSPORTSFAN]

Back in the early 2000s, Atlanta was no. 1 on the most dangerous list. Atlanta is currently ranked no. 1 for having the rudest drivers.

[Themadfarter1976]

@CHARKELLYAZ1818 All of them especially anything below I-20. 

[murfreebear]

I've been to ATL 3 times and I did 60mph and was passing the shit otta everyone LOL

[roseforvendetta]

done 70 through usher was my friend riden

[AbiROAR]

What time of day did you drive through?

[esca8652]

@ATLSPORTSFAN Rudest drivers, possibly, that's why I don't drive in atlanta, because that's one more crazy driver on the road, I hate atlanta roads.

[WarrantedFaith]

@musicfreakcc By the way, that song would make a great audio file to add to this video ;) It's was pretty neat.

[WarrantedFaith]

@musicfreakcc I was mistaken on the distance between the dashes ... if it was only 9 feet, you'd expect to see about 8 flying by a second at 70mph. But anywho, are you sure they actually changed the distance between dashes when repainting them? I ask because I remember going thru there at 70-72, and noticing that at that speed the beat of Owl City's song "Tidal Wave" matched up perfectly with the dashing passing the car lol, and then I've also noticed the same on I-40 up here in NC.

[WarrantedFaith]

@bigchris1257 Sorry, not 9 feet; 9 feet I believe is the width of the lanes or something. On an interstate, the dashes themselves are more like 9 feet long, with 20 some feet in between.