I live in Marietta and work for an IT managed services provider, so I cross through this interchange fairly often. The years have had me on every ramp. I was surprised to see this much traffic on a Sunday in the video. Great piece of work! Thanks for all the driving and work to put these together. The sign pictures are a nice addition and I always love your choice of music!

This is just awesome, the ramps, C/D lanes, all that is just impressive. Yes, it can take a ton of time, driving, and filming to do this video, but at the end it really shows how great this interchange is. The traffic was heavy, but it looked like there were no jams or problems.

Well done! I have driven this interchange on a daily basis and I’ve never stopped marveling at its intricacies and at its simplicities. I’ve driven over every bridge on it, my favorite being the highest span that takes you from a northern service road to I-85 south. Winter time and ice are always a hazard and I’ve seen countless signs of vehicle scrapes on the side barriers of the bridges. Fortunately, I’ve never been stuck in traffic on it for any great length of time, a testament to its planning.

@Freewayjim

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

My family and I went through this during Spring Break. This is an awesome stack-interchange!!!! We went from I-285 E to I-85 N to the Mall of Georgia.

Kinda interesting watching videos like these. Seeing all these different people in all these different cars going all these different places living their different, individual lives, all to meet potentially just once in that moment of time in Atlanta. You usually don't think like that during your daily commute. I usually only do when I look above and see an airplane tens of thousands of feet above me, with the hundred or so people on board going who knows where... `~`

@Freewayjim

9 жыл бұрын

Interesting perspective.

@BKofficer23

9 жыл бұрын

Freewayjim By the way, what kind of camera do you use?

@Freewayjim

9 жыл бұрын

BKofficer23 In this video it was a Sony HDR-HC9 camcorder but in my newer (2013-2014) videos I upgraded to a Sony HDR-JP710, the difference is remarkable.

@BKofficer23

9 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Freewayjim.

@adahifelicianosantos6967

7 жыл бұрын

SBKofficer23

That's one hell of an interchange. I've only been to Atlanta three times. Twice driving through in the dead of night (harder to appreciate those interchanges) and once flying in. I'd love to take a chance to drive some of those freeways some time.... although perhaps not during the infamous Atlanta rush hour.

Hey there !!! I’ve really enjoyed watching your Atlanta freeway videos !!! I was born & raised in and around the Atlanta area where I lived my entire life . So needless to say,I am well familiar how crazy these drivers can possibly be ,you know? Oh and I am well familiar with these roads and how bad the traffic can be, especially during rush hour . I was born in Marietta, then moved to Douglasville,an Atlanta suburb 25 miles west of Atlanta. where I lived for about 30 yrs. Still have family there in East GA .east of Atlanta ). Keep up these great videos-makes me feel like I’m back at home again. so many thumbs up and make more of these Atlanta freeway videos. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

@Freewayjim

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for the comment and for watching!

Awesome job! 101 miles to record it, amazing! It truly is an engineering marvel. Loved the newspapers in the beginning of the video.

GREAT JOB!!! the transitions where great in the video.. I liked the effects and the road data was superb.. Keep up the good work.

Ah, home. This was the first video of yours I watched and its awesome I can go back and watch this from the other side of the world, thanks for sharing your hobby.

@Freewayjim

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

Midnight Express, what a great movie! And a great theme! You did a colossal work with this video. It must've taken you a long time. Thanks for the tour.

Jim, that was an epic!!! Your best yet IMHO. Damn!!! :)

Awesome

i havent been in the atl in about 6yers ive drove threw the junction many times , thank u 4 the video it beings back many good times i had going out on the ramp .

I mentioned this in the live chat not long ago. I was compelled to look at this again after awhile. It's a masterful video and the one fascinating thing about the interchange is that each ramp connects to other ramps and vice versa. But again, it was great work!

@Freewayjim

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I may have to re-do this someday with the good camera.

good work. Been a long time fan.

Awesome video! Thanks for your time!

Loved these types of videos! Have you thought of doing one for another complex interchange some day?

@Freewayjim

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, these types of videos are quite challenging to do but I do have this one from Dallas. kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZmGlupSyiarXd84.html

Good selection of music on this one. Like your style.

great vid; great music the best !!

this was awesome

This what I call a Marvel for a highway interchange. You should see the Springfield Interchange in Virginia.

OH YEAH....I'm gonna ride this today!!! Thanks for the awesome video...I'm gonna post it on my Facebook!

Very interesting tour. Why don't you make such tours on other big and complicated interchanges like some in NYC, NJ, LA, which might even be more interesting, as right and left turns and generally different routes would be of different kind altogether.

i love this freaking video

great job jim

@bmbsage Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you so much. This is what I've been searching for. Lived here my entire life, but I always wanted to know what streets/ramps/connectors there were!

@Freewayjim

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, glad I could help :)

@aswchris Thanks, glad I kept those all these years.

I still remember when going to the Cobb county area the support poles in place but no actual ramps for many trips

Why are this so strangely addictive

@Reiser86 Thank you! I appreciate you recognizing that :)

nice tour!

Man, this was just flat out awesome. To be honest, I never realized just how expansive that interchange really is, until watching this. I never even noticed all the extra feeder-C/D lanes, while driving thru it a few times in 2009. I think after watching this, I'd say this is more impressive than the El Toro "Y" interchange. Definitely an engineering marvel for its time. That song was bad as hell too; going to download it right now. Favorited!

Been on 285 couple of times , i like the peacefulness, reminds me of Augusta's I-520

@4:04, That minivan scared me! Great video...

Petition to rename this the Mom's Spaghetti interchange

@ngtflyer Thank you very much! I though the traffic was heavier than usual too.

Driving in Atlanta must be fun at times and at other times it must want to make you pull your hair out ..

@Freewayjim

6 жыл бұрын

Yes and yes!

@davidstrohl

5 жыл бұрын

It’s fun at 3 am, and hell on earth at 3 pm.

Cheers!

@0marigolds Thanks, it was a lot of work, probably the most I've ever put in to a video, glad you joyed it :)

I drive on I-285 at least once or twice a week myself !!!

All my life that I lived here in Atlanta I still haven't went through Spaghetti Junction. And that song I heard it on a radio or movie can't remember sounds good.

@sunshinegirl1967

7 жыл бұрын

How have you escaped Spaghetti junction?? You must've taken back roads I guess!

@floridian4072

7 жыл бұрын

No I just don't go up north of Atlanta it's either South Fulton, DeKalb County, and Clayton County. I know my way around those areas

@sunshinegirl1967

7 жыл бұрын

Santwone S. I see. I lived in Decatur for several years back in the 90's, and my grandparents lived near College Park for many years.

@michaelbme1983

5 жыл бұрын

That is the opening theme for the overnight radio show "Coast to Coast AM" with George Noory.

I live maybe 2 or 3 miles away. I know every hump,bump,crack and hobo un the area. I love it though,perfect for work. I can leave in the morning and head north and work my way back home.No traffic most of the time.

@FreewayAndrew Thanks! Yes traffic was heavier than I anticipated for just a Sunday afternoon.

You do a helluva job on your hwy vids. I like em.

I agree!

I was stuck stopped right under the lowest part of that interchange on anti-clockwise bound I-285 for over an hour due to a traffic accident ahead of me during my 2004 roadtrip. Lots of time to get out, stretch, socialize with the neighbors, listen to tunes on the iPod, etc. :-p

@Freewayjim We have one in New Jersey called The Newark Airport Interchange just north of Newark Liberty International Airport where I-95/NJ Turnpike, I-78, US 1-9, US 22, and NJ State Highway Rt. 21 all come together.

@atworkstation Thank you!

I go through or near it almost every day, yeah it's crazy at rush hour.

@Themadfarter1976 South Cobb is no walk in the park either. I'd like to see the C/D lanes from exit 105 to 109 extended south to I-285, they really do help keep traffic flowing.

@wipandco Thanks, it was a lot of work!

Thanks, you should check out my Dallas & Houston videos, they are even bigger there.

Awesome. Next time you're in the DC area, can you do a 360 of the Springfield Interchange? (I-495, I-95, I-395 etc.)

@Freewayjim

10 жыл бұрын

That interchange will be seen in next monday's video but I have not had the opportunity to do a 360 of it. traffic conditions would have to be ideal for that as it would take quite a while to get all those ramps.

Thanks for the excellent video. A well planned execution. Is it possible to provide an animated sketch inset to follow the route?

Cool video. I have to go 85S to 285W tomorrow morning. Hopefully I'll be early enough to beat traffic

An area I know all too well. I reside 2 hrs south in Dublin, Georgia. It's that exit from 75 to get on 85 that gets me every time. It's the left exit that has a nasty right hand switchback. I nearly learned that exit the hard way.its not easy having to brake from 70 down to 15. I personally don't see how they even maneuver it.

@LeonMoutch Time would be a big factor on doing these, plus I only do them for really unique and exceptional interchanges. These videos are the exception, not the rule for me but I may do one more in a different city later this year.

@devastator2110 You are welcome, glad you enjoy the videos!

@rickhh1 Good question! I did not keep track of the time but I can tell you without a doubt, longer than I had worked on any other video.

@jcrockett001 Great questions. The places I'd like to film next are all on the west coast since I have never been there. The High Five in Dallas is the #1 interchange by far, 2-5 are negotiable. My 5 best videos, wow, i 'm not really sure.

They do, but this one was first having opened in 1986.

@FreewayBrent Thanks Brent, it is quite an interchange for it's time. I thought you might like that song, hope you use it in a future video.

@BNforever2009 Thank you!

Apparently they started planning for this in the mid 1970's and broke ground in 1983.

@georgiaroadgeek Thanks Steve!

Amazing work, Jim! That's crazy that it took over two hours for you to film all of this footage from one interchange. If you don't mind, where does this one (interchange) rank among your favorites, and could you possibly give your top 5 or so best?

@Freewayjim

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mike, it probably doesn't make the top 10 compared to what I've seen around the country but it will always be a sentimental favorite because I got to see it being built as I learned to drive in that mess of construction.

@Curtains1337 Thank you!

Thanks for watching!

That car at 1:35 - YIKES!

good!

@the905sDW Thanks!

I find it weird that the 5th level of this stack consists of a lone NE-to-SW ramp passing over everything.

@Freewayjim: Springfield Interchange tour!

@casmatori Thanks!

I know why the retaining walls on the ramp from I-285 South-Inner to I-85 North get smacked a lot. There's some funky geometry in that ramp and it has an odd gravity pull. If you're not careful, you can lose control and whap! I mean, the walls are right on top of you there.

My commute every day...at least theres some good looking points lol

There's a good interchange with two high beam bridges heading towards I-95 up to Maryland. But I can't remember what the name of that one is. Do you know which one I'm talking about? Btw, nice vid.

@FreewayBrent Yeah, I'd love to.

Not really, if you have a clue as to where you are going and read signs it's not difficult at all.

@LeonMoutch One I'd really like to do is the I-787/US-9/20 interchange in Albany, but getting up there with the time needed to do a tour like this is another story.

@lilsweets4u22 Thank you!

@racsito39 Three Digit interstates are auxiliary routes of two digit interstates, like beltways around a city (like I-285), by-passes and spurs, do a google search to learn more, there are plenty of places that explain this in more detail.

@FrankG5874 I've seen the Springfield, have videos driving through it. Would love to do a 360 Tour of it like this one someday.

@ScrewdUPClickV2 Yes indeed, thank you sir!

@seand67 Thank you!

I go through it everyday, did you go through it at rush hour? It is INSANE during rush hour, mostly going from 285 East to 85 North. Don't want to see it then, half of I-285 is either bumper to bumper stand still, or just barely crawling.

Thank you, I could add that but I think it would make the video too busy to follow, that's already a lot going on with the footage and signs and quickly changing clips.

@james71 Thanks!

@anrchst1905 Thanks!

@Pikachu25sci90vt @Pikachu25sci90vt Thanks, There are two 4-Level stacks on the Baltimore Beltway if that's what you are talking about? and if so I have them both on other videos.

And for the record, how long did it take you to splice and edit this masterpiece together?

That’s a lot of lanes in Spaghetti Junction.

So far, out of all of your videos, in general, what are your top 5? Out of all of the interchanges that you have experienced in your videos, what are your top 5? And what 5 places would you like to film next?

What's that song in the intro where it says your name called? :P

@aijunk2 I drive an Acura TL with a lot of miles on it. (never understood the interest in what I drive but I get the question a lot). I just try to keep my eyes open to what's around me, I had 3 close calls while filming this video, none were my fault. Yeah, it can get crazy out there.

Criving from Fort Myers Florida To New York City takes about a day when you dont sleep.

You have to memorize exit to remember that you already took and it's a sucess

Such a cool video! Would it be okay if I used a short clip of this (4 seconds) in a tiktok and gave you credit?

@Freewayjim

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, sure thing, thank you for asking.