The Brampton Road Connector opened July 15: a $126 million, four-lane limited-access highway built by Georgia DOT that links Garden City Terminal's Gate 3 directly to the interstate system and removes truck traffic and at-grade rail crossings from surrounding neighborhood streets.
GPA CEO Griff Lynch said it will mean faster truck turn times and safer routing inland. It's the last piece of a corridor GDOT has been assembling for 12 years and nearly $600 million, alongside the I-16/I-95 interchange, the Jimmy Deloach Parkway and the Highway 307 overpass.
The road opened as the port closed fiscal year 2026 at 5.67 million TEUs, just short of 2025's 5.7 million record, after an 18% jump in June alone. That volume sits inside GPA's nearly $5 billion, self-financed ten-year capital plan, which adds five new big-ship berths at Ocean Terminal and Savannah Container Terminal, more than any other U.S. container port, aiming to roughly double capacity to 12.5 million TEUs by 2035.
Why it matters
This is the road GDOT has been building toward for over a decade specifically so port truck traffic stops running through neighborhood streets, opening in the same month the port posted its second-best year ever.
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