The Watermelon 500 is Back To Normal
One of the nicknames for I-285 in Atlanta is the Watermelon 500 because people drive so fast on it. It was not unusual when I still worked for IBM for me to drive 80 to 85 on the way to and from work and that was just keeping up with traffic. What with part of I-85 shutdown a lot of the traffic moved to I-285 and clogged it up. For example, I drove to Columbia South Carolina Saturday to spend Mom’s Day with my sister. Because of the traffic it took me forty minutes to get from my house to I-20 because of all of the traffic on I-285. It was stop and go a lot of the way. I was able to make up a lot of the lost time on I-20 by jumping into convoys of people driving 85-90 mph. As a result, what normally takes 3.5 hours, I did in 3 hours 40 minutes. I-85 opened up over the weekend and coming home today, I-285 was back to normal and I made it from I-20 to my house in a little under twenty minutes.
Woo hoo! The Watermelon 500 is back to normal!
