Four new gantries for overhead signage have been installed on I-285 west of 400: three eastbound, one westbound. The westbound one bears a sign for the Riverside Drive exit, but the others are bare so far.
Does anyone know what will the exit ramps at 285 and Peachtree Industrial look like when complete? I'm under the assumption that there is supposed to be a C/D system of bridges and ramps between Buford hwy and the Chamblee-Dunwoody road exits? I bleeping hate that area during peak traffic times because of the last minute weaving of traffic to catch the exit to P.I.B.
I don't know of any such CD system. The current project at 285 and PIB will consolidate the two westbound offramps into one. I actually think that doing this will be modestly counterproductive because it'll shorten the already-inadequate distance between there and the Buford Highway onramp, but it's necessary in order to accommodate the planned ramp braid between the PIB onramp and the North Shallowford et al offramp.
AFAIK, there's no corresponding improvement proposed for the eastbound side. I don't think that building a mirror image of the westbound side would do any good since traffic from the eastbound offramp to PIB will continue to back up onto the mainline as long as it's a one-lane loop ramp. I dunno... maybe they'll go back to marking the loop ramp as two lanes if/when they replace the 285 bridges over PIB and can add more room there. That's not planned, either, though.
