Twenty-two students in the Global Youth Leadership Program leave Monday, May 27, for Brazil, the fifth largest country in the world with the 9th largest economy

Fulton County Commission Chairman John H. Eaves, District 1, At-Large will lead 22 Fulton County students on an adventure that will teach them about the Global Economy and its current challenges on Monday, May 27, 2013.    Chairman Eaves and the members of the Global Youth Leadership Program will meet at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport at 4:00 p.m. in the International Terminal to begin a 10-day trip to Brazil that will include stays with host families, visits to Salvador, Recife and Itamaraca Island.

ATLANTA -- More than 300,000 motorists travel through the interchange between Georgia 400 and I-285 every day, making it one of the most congested interchanges in metro Atlanta.

"I avoid it as much as I can," said Anna Trad of Cobb County. "I end up going a longer way to work just because you can sit there for quite a long time trying to get through it."

Political and engineering solutions have been equally slow. The intersection was a priority in the regional transportation SPLOST that voters turned down last summer.

So an incremental step toward improving that interchange got big-news treatment at the Capitol, when Governor Deal and fourteen other officials shared a podium to announcing that a community improvement district would contribute ten million dollars toward remaking 400 and 285.

"To me this is a catalyst to move things forward," said former DeKalb CEO Liane Levetan, a member of the Atlanta Regional Commission.