Overnight ‘traffic pacing’ to slow Ga. 400 in N. Fulton

Northbound traffic on Ga. 400 in Buckhead and Sandy Springs will be slowed to 15 mph during the overnight hours through Friday to facilitate bridge construction for the Ga. 400/I-285 interchange reconstruction. AJC FILE

Northbound traffic on Ga. 400 in Buckhead and Sandy Springs will be slowed to 15 mph during the overnight hours through Friday to facilitate bridge construction for the Ga. 400/I-285 interchange reconstruction. AJC FILE

“Traffic pacing” to facilitate bridge construction in the coming nights will reduce traffic to a crawl on northbound Ga. 400 in the Buckhead-Sandy Springs area, the Georgia Department of Transportation announced.

Police vehicles will slow traffic to about 15 mph from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. nightly through Friday, Jan. 11, from Lenox Road in Buckhead to Abernathy Road in Sandy Springs, GDOT said.

Police also will be positioned at on-ramps to temporarily restrict traffic from entering Ga. 400 until the pacing operation ends. The impacted, northbound ramps are from Lenox Road, the Glenridge Connector, eastbound and westbound I-285, and Hammond Drive.

The work is "weather permitting" and part of the continuing reconstruction of the Ga. 400/I-285 interchange in the top-end Perimeter area of North Fulton and DeKalb counties. Information: https://bit.ly/2jfU8S7