Georgia Pursues Truck-Only Highway

According to The Georgia Department of Transportation, they hope to construct the first toll-free, truck-only highway in the United States.

For this $1.8 billion. project, The Georgia Department of Transportation hopes to construct roughly 40 miles of new truck-only highway near Interstate 75 around the Atlanta area.

State officials noted that the project is expected to reduce traffic delays on I-75 by 40%. An updated fact sheet released by The Georgia Department of Transportation specified that, “The project will benefit all motorists by reducing congestion and improving safety while offering direct economic benefits to travelers in Georgia as well as freight and logistic carriers in the southeast.

The report cited additional traffic from Port of Savannah as one of the key reasons why additional road capacity must be increased.

The highway should also ease traffic along Atlanta’s intersection of Interstates 285 and 85 North, one of the most congested freight bottlenecks.

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