Motorists can expect lane closures and traffic disruptions this weekend in the Sandy Springs/Perimeter area as crews working for the Georgia Department of Transportation prepare to open a new exit ramp from southbound Ga. 400 to Abernathy Road.

From 9 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday, weather permitting, the ramp from southbound Ga. 400 to Abernathy (Exit 5) will be closed; two right lanes of southbound Ga. 400 will be closed from Abernathy to Hammond Drive; and westbound Abernathy will be closed from Peachtree Dunwoody Road to Ga. 400, GDOT said.

If all goes as planned, the new exit ramp to Abernathy will open at 5 a.m. Monday. Motorists are reminded that the ramp will start just after the North Springs MARTA station overpass, a half-mile earlier than before.

The work is part of the ongoing reconstruction of the Ga. 400/I-285 interchange. Information: https://bit.ly/3kJORki

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Laurence Walker, a volunteer with the Cajun Navy Relief, left, takes two volunteers out on his boat on Lake Oconee to search for Gary Jones, Tuesday, February, 18, 2024, in Eatonton, Ga. The Putnam County sheriff is investigating and searching after Spelman College instructor Joycelyn Nicole Wilson and an Atlanta private school coach Gary Jones went missing on Lake Oconee over a week ago, Saturday Feb. 8th. The body of Wilson was found Sunday, Feb. 9th and Jones has not been found. (Jason Getz / AJC)

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