Arthur E. Langford Jr. Parkway (State Route 166), formerly known as the Lakewood Freeway, is a six-mile (10 km) freeway through the northern portion of East Point

East Point, Georgia

The city of East Point is southwest of the neighborhoods of Atlanta in Fulton County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 33,712...

 and southwestern Atlanta, Georgia

Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...

, USA. The highway connects the Perimeter

Interstate 285

Interstate 285 is an Interstate Highway loop encircling Atlanta, Georgia, for . I-285 is also known as unsigned State Route 407 and is colloquially referred to as the Perimeter. Suburban sprawl has made it one of the most heavily traveled roadways in the United States, and portions of the highway...

 in the west with the Downtown Connector

Downtown Connector

In Atlanta, Georgia, the Downtown Connector or 75/85 is the concurrent section of Interstate 75 and Interstate 85 through the core of the city. Beginning at the I-85/Langford Parkway interchange, the Downtown Connector runs generally due north, meeting the east-west Interstate 20 in the middle....

 (I-75/I-85) in the east.

In 1995 the Georgia Senate moved to rename the then Lakewood Freeway to the Arthur Langford, Jr.

Arthur Langford, Jr.

Arthur E. Langford, Jr. was an Atlanta, Georgia city councilman and Georgia state senator . When he was a student as Morris Brown College, Langford worked against drugs and violence in poor neighborhoods, founding the...

 Memorial Parkway in honor of the former Atlanta city councilman and Georgia state senator.

Proposed eastward extension to I-20 and cancellation

State Route 166, or just "166" as it is known by the locals, was originally supposed to extend (as I-420) from I-20 near Douglasville

Douglasville, Georgia

The city of Douglasville is the county seat of Douglas County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 30,961...

 in the west to the DeKalb County

DeKalb County, Georgia

DeKalb County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. The population of the county was 691,893 at the 2010 census. Its county seat is the city of Decatur. It is bordered to the west by Fulton County and contains roughly 10% of the city of Atlanta...

 seat

County seat

A county seat is an administrative center, or seat of government, for a county or civil parish. The term is primarily used in the United States....

 of Decatur

Decatur, Georgia

Decatur is a city in, and county seat of, DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. With a population of 19,335 in the 2010 census, the city is sometimes assumed to be larger since multiple zip codes in unincorporated DeKalb County bear the Decatur name...

 in the east. The eastern portion of this was fought bitterly by residents in court

Court

A court is a form of tribunal, often a governmental institution, with the authority to adjudicate legal disputes between parties and carry out the administration of justice in civil, criminal, and administrative matters in accordance with the rule of law...

, and was eventually cancelled, along with a number of other interstate highways in Atlanta. The old I-420 was planned to meet the cancelled portion of Georgia 400 near Moreland Avenue, and then end at an interchange with I-20 in Decatur. 166 is multiplexed with S.R. 154 from S.R. 70 (Fulton

Fulton County, Georgia

Fulton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. Its county seat is Atlanta, the state capital since 1868 and the principal county of the Atlanta metropolitan area...

 Industrial Boulevard/Cascade

Cascade Heights

Cascade Heights is an affluent predominantly African-American neighborhood in southwest Atlanta. Along with Sandtown and other portions of unincorporated South Fulton County, the area has a reputation as having a high concentration of the African-American elite in the city.Cascade Heights, or...

-Palmetto

Palmetto, Georgia

Palmetto is a city located mostly in Fulton County and now partly in Coweta County in the U.S. state of Georgia...

 Highway) in the west to the U.S. 29 interchange at Lee Street/Main Street near Fort McPherson

Fort McPherson

Fort McPherson was a U.S. Army military base located in East Point, Georgia, on the southwest edge of the City of Atlanta, Ga. It was the headquarters for the U.S. Army Installation Management Command, Southeast Region; the U.S. Army Forces Command; the U.S. Army Reserve Command; the U.S...

 in the east.

Since 2003, GDOT has widened 166 between Greenbriar Parkway and Perkerson Road.

Exit list

The entire road is in Fulton County.

Location	Destinations	Notes
Atlanta		Continuation beyond I-285
	– Montgomery, Macon, Chattanooga, Birmingham
	Greenbriar Greenbriar Mall Greenbriar Mall is a shopping mall southwest of downtown Atlanta, United States..-Early years:Greenbriar Center opened in August/September 1965 as Atlanta's third totally enclosed mall, after Columbia Mall, in 1964, and North Dekalb Center, in July 1965. The design of the mall was like many of the...  Parkway, Campbellton Road
	DeLowe Drive, Stanton Road
East Point
		East end of SR 154 overlap
Atlanta	Lakewood Avenue, Sylvan Road, Cleveland Avenue
	Lakewood Avenue	At-grade intersection At-grade intersection An at-grade intersection is a junction at which two or more transport axes cross at the same level .-Traffic management:With areas of high or fast traffic, an at-grade intersection normally requires a traffic control device such as a stop sign, traffic light or railway signal to manage conflicting...