Spring Street Viaduct Closing in September

The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) is almost ready to begin demolishing and rebuilding the Spring Street Viaduct to allow heavier vehicles to transit the route.

Starting on Sept. 2, Spring Street will be closed at Dr, Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive by the Sam Nunn Atlanta Federal Center. Demolition crews will then knock down the viaduct’s northern section. Following demolition, construction workers will rebuild the span to accommodate buses and trucks, which cannot use the current viaduct. The process will then be repeated on the southern half of the viaduct.

The $21 million project should be completed by November, 2016, but locals are already concerned about the pedestrian and vehicle traffic snares such a project will create.

GDOT has posted a map which lays out the detours which will be in place for the duration of the project. Motorists can use either Centennial Olympic Park Drive or Forsyth Street to avoid the bridge project and come out on to Spring Street near Centennial Tower.