Freedom Park (Atlanta, Georgia)

The east-west route (part of which is now Freedom Parkway) would run east from the Downtown Connector (I-75/85) to the Stone Mountain Expressway.

The 207-acre (84-hectare) Freedom Park was officially dedicated on September 19, 2000, with ribbon cutters Jimmy Carter, then-current Governor Roy Barnes, and Mayor Bill Campbell.

Since then it has hosted a number of outdoor sculpture displays and is a popular jogging, bike riding, and dog-walking park.

[1][2] The main portion of John Lewis Freedom Parkway, running east from an oversized interchange with the Downtown Connector (I-75/85) and then north at the Carter Center to Ponce de Leon Avenue (US 29/US 78/US 278/SR 8), is numbered and signed as SR 10.

Westbound traffic is carried along the north side on Williams Mill Road, which then becomes two-way Ralph McGill Boulevard at a surface intersection with SR 10.

While it appears that the "tunnel" the parkway travels through at this point is an unused overpass for a never-built road, this underpass is actually to prevent ice from falling onto the roadway or onto cars during or after a winter storm.

[3][4] The Bridge, 1997, by Thornton Dial, at Ponce de Leon Avenue,[5][6] portrays congressman John Lewis' "lifelong quest for civil and human rights" and the community's "valiant efforts" to stop the construction of freeways and preserve intown neighborhoods".