Test-drive new interchange design Saturday

As a crews build a brand-new type of highway interchange on the Perimeter, drivers are asked to come for a test drive this Saturday.

Georgia has never before seen a "diverging diamond" interchange, the type being installed at Ashford-Dunwoody Road and I-285.  Local officials want drivers to at least get a taste of the figure-eight maze before it goes live, if only in a mock-up next door.

From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 19, drivers are welcome to a test drive in the Perimeter Mall parking lot.  It's at the corner of Ashford-Dunwoody Road and Perimeter Center West, and a current driver's license is required.