Interstate 475 (Georgia)

Interstate 475
Larry Justice Highway
Route information
Maintained by GDOT
Length:	15.83 mi[1] (25.48 km)
Existed:	1965 – present
Major junctions
South end:	I‑75 near Macon
	US 80 near Macon US 41 near Bolingbroke
North end:	I‑75 near Bolingbroke
Highway system
Interstate Highway System Main Auxiliary Suffixed Business Georgia State Routes Interstate U.S. State Former ← SR 407 SR 408 SR 409 →

Interstate 475 (I-475) is a 15.83-mile-long (25.48 km) auxiliary Interstate highway in Georgia, splitting off from I-75 and bypassing Macon. It is also unsigned State Route 408 (SR 408). This is the preferred route for through traffic, as I-75 enters downtown Macon and reduces to four lanes (two in either direction; undergoing widening), and has a 60-mile-per-hour (97 km/h) speed limit, in addition to the highway interchange with I-16.

Route description

I-75 northbound sign at Hartley Bridge Road for I-475 north in Macon

I-475 carries six lanes (three in each direction) throughout its entire route (expanding to eight lanes at both junctions with I-75).

The road has also been equipped with traffic cameras, which are a part of the Georgia Navigator system that has been extended via fiber optics all the way from metro Atlanta, nearly 100 miles (160 km) to the north-northwest.^[2]

History

The number 475 had originally been assigned to I-675 and SR 400, which were to have been a single north–south expressway through the immediate east side of Atlanta.

Built in stages between 1965 and 1971, I-475 was originally built with two lanes in each direction, and a wide median with forest, mostly of sweetgum trees. When the one lane was added in each direction, every bit of the median was paved, with a full-lane-wide shoulder in both directions instead of the normal very narrow ones, and a Jersey barrier, rather than leaving or replanting any trees or other landscaping or native vegetation.

The Bibb County Commission named the highway in honor of former Commission Chairman Larry Justice, who retired in 2000.^[3]

Exit list

County	Location	mi	km	Old exit	New exit	Destinations	Notes
Bibb		0	0			I‑75 south (SR 401) – Valdosta	Southern terminus; southbound exit and northbound entrance; I-75 exit 156
	Macon	0.4	0.6		1	Hartley Bridge Road	Added exit in 2009 with new collector–distributor lanes; exit 155 on I-75 southbound, collector–distributor Lanes from Hartley Bridge Road entrance going northbound to I-475 and I-75
		3.9	6.3	1	3	US 80 / SR 22 (Eisenhower Parkway) – Macon, Roberta
		5.6	9.0	2	5	SR 74 (Thomaston Road, Mercer University Drive) – Macon, Thomaston
		9.4	15.1	3	9	Zebulon Road	To US 41/SR 19
Monroe		15.1	24.3	4	15	US 41 / SR 19 (Rivoli Road) – Bolingbroke
		15.83	25.48			I‑75 north – Atlanta	Northern terminus; northbound exit and southbound entrance; I-75 exit 177
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Incomplete access

See also

• Georgia (U.S. state) portal
• U.S. Roads portal

References

1. "Route Log - Auxiliary Routes of the Eisenhower National System Of Interstate and Defense Highways - Table 2". Federal Highway Administration. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
2. "13 WMAZ traffic cams: http://www.13wmaz.com/travel/traffic/default.aspx"
3. Stucka, Mike (August 14, 2012). "Larry Justice, former Bibb County commission chairman, dead at 74". The Telegraph (Macon, GA).

External links

Route map: Bing / Google

• Kurumi - Georgia I-475