You may not have heard of Interstate 14 until now, and even if you have, you may disregard I-14 as unimportant because its future routing would cut through the middle of Georgia, roughly an hour south of Atlanta.
Congressionally designated in 2022 and partly built in Texas, plans for I-14 in Georgia call for upgrades to the Fall Line Freeway from Columbus to Augusta, making it the Peach State’s first new interstate since the 1960s. (For a quick I-14 primer, check out this video). But I posit that I-14 is equally—if not more—important to the Atlanta metropolitan area as it is to middle Georgia.
On average, Atlantans lose $1,900, or 56 hours, in productivity per year from sitting in traffic congestion. Over the past 60 years, the Georgia Department of Transportation has added lanes to I-85, I-75, I-20, and I-285 as a supposed solution to Atlanta's traffic woes.
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