The Importance Of Transportation In Atlanta

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Atlanta is one of only five cities in the nation to be served by three separate interstate highways. All of these interstate highways make moving products and people from one point in Georgia to another or from Georgia to another state relatively easy. The highways helped attract business, industry, and more transportation facilities to the Atlanta area. Georgia economic products can now reach approximately 80% of Americans overnight using the interstate highway system. Hartfield-Jackson is always one of the busiest airports in the nation. Georgia products are withing two hours of eighty million U.S. consumers. Georgia, and the southeast, it generates $23.5 billion on an annual basis.ports allow Georgia products to be sent via ship to all parts

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